Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Life Quotes

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Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The classroom in the modern city child's life is the only equivalent for what used to be 'his community.'

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that — and it's true.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
We don't decide anything. We just slide along thinking of something else. If people would only give, just once in their lives, the same amount of serious reflection to what they want to get out of life that they give to the question of what they want to get out of a two-weeks' vacation [...] there aren't many folks who wouldn't be horrified at the aimless procession of their busy days and the trivial false standards they subscribe to with their blood and sweat.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher