These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERMoney hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
-
-
Let your joy scream across the pain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
There’s no great loss without some small gain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
Home is the nicest word there is.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER






