I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
BARBARA MERTZHusbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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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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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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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
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Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
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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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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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His masculinity was only too apparent
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It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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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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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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I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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There 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.
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