Carolyn Wells Quotes

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We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

Carolyn Wells
They borrow books they will not buy,
They have no ethics or religions;
I wish some kind Burbankian guy
Would cross my books with homing pigeons.

Carolyn Wells
'Tis but a Toy on which one spends a Pile.
And Brags about it for a Little While;
Ambition rises — and the Foolish Man
Sighs, and prepares to buy Another Style.

Carolyn Wells
When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.

Carolyn Wells
A Tutor who tooted the flute,
Tried to teach two young tooters to toot;
Said the two to the tutor,
'Is it harder to toot or
To tutor two tooters to toot?'

Carolyn Wells
I sometimes think that every Shining Star
Is but the Tail Lamp of a Motor Car;
Which leap'd from Earth in its mad Ecstasy,
And into Space went Speeding Fast and Far.

Carolyn Wells
A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny,
'A canner can can
Anything that he can,
But a canner can't can a can, can he?'

Carolyn Wells
'Tis said, woman loves not her lover
So much as she loves his love of her;
Then loves she her lover
For love of her lover,
Or love of her love of her lover?

Carolyn Wells
When Venus said 'Spell no for me,'
'N-O' Dan Cupid wrote with glee,
And smiled at his success:
'Ah, child,' said Venus, laughing low,
'We women do not spell it so,
We spell it Y-E-S.'

Carolyn Wells
The Bananaconda is thin,
With a reddish or yellow skin.
He's not quite a brute,
Nor exactly a fruit,
Though to each of them he is akin.

Carolyn Wells
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull and dry;
The books that we should 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
Musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Carolyn Wells