Quotes

Aggie Quotes:

 

I think these show her wit and her scheming that goes into many of her books, and some of how she behaved in her own life.  She was very much ahead of her time and progressive, and these quotes also show her sarcasm that oozes out of everything she says.  Also, some of them like the first one, for example, show a softer more delicate side.

 

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

 

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

 

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

 

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

 

 

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.

 

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

 

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

 

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

 

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

 

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

 

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.