Carolyn Wells Quotes


Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. - Carolyn Wells


You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob,
And a ring-and-thimble cake. - Carolyn Wells


We are not the barbecue police. We are not in charge of security. - Carolyn Wells


To make a library it takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few. - Carolyn Wells


'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, could we bestow the gifts we get, and keep the ones we give away, how happy were our Christmas day! - Carolyn Wells


The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all. - Carolyn Wells


Of two evils, choose the prettier. - Carolyn Wells


Of two evils choose the prettier. - Carolyn Wells


It's sort of grandfathered in. - Carolyn Wells


It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. - Carolyn Wells


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