Quotes from Fanny Fern

To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.

There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.

I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.

Love is a farce; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders,--sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they are sure of yours.

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

Life wore a new aspect; the skies were bluer, the earth greener, the flowers more fragrant; her twin soul existed somewhere.

Marriage is the hardest way to get a living.

Matrimony and the toothache may be survived, but of all the evils femininity is heir to, defend me from a shopping excursion.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

Life has much of harmony yet in store for you.

Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell?

I've as good a right to preserve the healthy body God gave me, as if I were not a woman.

Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell?