Orson Squire Fowler quotes

“Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day.”
-- Orson Squire Fowler

Source : Orson Squire Fowler (1851). “Memory and Intellectual Improvement: Applied to Self-education and Juvenile Instruction”, p.115

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“The sole constitutional office of language being to express our ideas and sentiments, it becomes more and more perfect and useful, the more effectually it subserves this sole end of its creation.”
-- Orson Squire Fowler

Source : Orson Squire FOWLER (1857). “Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction ... Twenty-fifth edition, improved”, p.133

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“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”

“My family is my strength and my weakness.”

“The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.”

“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”

“I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.”

“I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.”

“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”