Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman famous quotes

No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

#Cat #Tired #Mind

Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

#Cat #Cat Love

The dog without his master was like a body without a soul.
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

#Dog #Loss #Soul

sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

#Weed #Flower #Soul

Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

#Character #Doors #Holes

When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

#Struggle #Men #Joy

Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

#Change #Progress #Ordinary

Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

#Purpose #Prophet #Builder

The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

#Cat #Conviction #Creatures

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.