Fanny Fern

“I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.”

— Fanny Fern

“I've as good a right to preserve the healthy body God gave me, as if I were not a woman.”

— Fanny Fern

It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital…

— Fanny Fern

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

— Fanny Fern

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

— Fanny Fern

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

— Fanny Fern

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

— Fanny Fern

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

— Fanny Fern

Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

— Fanny Fern

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

— Fanny Fern

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

— Fanny Fern

A little oil makes machinery work easy.

— Fanny Fern

Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!

— Fanny Fern

I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what…

— Fanny Fern

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

— Fanny Fern

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way…

— Fanny Fern

Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and…

— Fanny Fern

“Marriage is the hardest way to get a living.”

— Fanny Fern

Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say,…

— Fanny Fern

Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.

— Fanny Fern

Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

— Fanny Fern

How strong sometimes is weakness!

— Fanny Fern

Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar.…

— Fanny Fern

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

— Fanny Fern

There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many…

— Fanny Fern