Mind Quotes by Margaret Deland

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my…

— Margaret Deland

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the…

— Margaret Deland

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change…

— Margaret Deland

there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive…

— Margaret Deland

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

— Margaret Deland

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

— Margaret Deland

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly…

— Margaret Deland

Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.

— Margaret Deland

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

— Margaret Deland

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its…

— Margaret Deland

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

— Margaret Deland

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

— Margaret Deland