Margaret Ayer Barnes

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

Riches make cowards of us.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel…

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

Character is the best security.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

“The trouble with education is,' said Jimmy cheerfully, 'that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means.…

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a…

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a…

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble…

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

Character comes before scholarship.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes