Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end. — Phyllis Bottome End times Copy Share Image
There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final. — Phyllis Bottome Failure Copy Share Image
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love. — Phyllis Bottome Communication Copy Share Image
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out. — Phyllis Bottome Accepting 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
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. — Phyllis Bottome Disadvantages Copy Share Image
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice. — Phyllis Bottome Dangerous 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 Depends Copy Share Image
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. — Phyllis Bottome Health Copy Share Image
If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven. — Phyllis Bottome Cows 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 Certain 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 Amount Copy Share Image
We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them. — Phyllis Bottome Facts 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
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome Art 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 Bent Copy Share Image
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is. — Phyllis Bottome Antidote Copy Share Image
Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never. — Phyllis Bottome Death Copy Share Image
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm. — Phyllis Bottome Burned Copy Share Image
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses! — Phyllis Bottome Children Copy Share Image
This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even… — Phyllis Bottome Able Copy Share Image
it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way. — Phyllis Bottome Cheat Copy Share Image
It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice. — Phyllis Bottome Dangerous Copy Share Image
it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life. — Phyllis Bottome Life Copy Share Image