Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus! — Phyllis Bottome Hippopotamus Copy Share Image
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. — Phyllis Bottome Comedy Copy Share Image
There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final. — Phyllis Bottome Failure Copy Share Image
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings. — Phyllis Bottome Feelings Copy Share Image
it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life. — Phyllis Bottome Life Copy Share Image
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think… — Phyllis Bottome Pity Copy Share Image
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. — Phyllis Bottome Adversity Copy Share Image
Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old… — Phyllis Bottome Child Copy Share Image
If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have… — Phyllis Bottome Angel Copy Share Image
Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance,… — Phyllis Bottome Being wise Copy Share Image
That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although… — Phyllis Bottome Christian Copy Share Image
It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't… — Phyllis Bottome Complaints Copy Share Image
Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make. — Phyllis Bottome Lying Copy Share Image
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love. — Phyllis Bottome Communication Copy Share Image
Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end. — Phyllis Bottome Beginning Copy Share Image
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich. — Phyllis Bottome Christ Copy Share Image
it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must… — Phyllis Bottome Alteration Copy Share Image
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being… — Phyllis Bottome Desire Copy Share Image
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome Character Copy Share Image
A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others… — Phyllis Bottome Acceptance Copy Share Image
... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any… — Phyllis Bottome Communication Copy Share Image
