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.
BARBARA MERTZThere is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.
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You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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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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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)
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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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His masculinity was only too apparent
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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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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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
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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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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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