Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
BARBARA MERTZI do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
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