Dorothy Canfield Fisher - People Quotes

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Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they want to do with themselves, hesitate because they have a great deal more to deal with. A nature rich in fine and complex possibilities takes more time to dispose of itself, but when it does, the world's beauty is the gainer.

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
He was impelled, by the fatality that hangs over people who have struck a false note, to strike it yet more loudly.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher