Dears Quotes

I`m dreading (old age). There are very few old people who are happy. When their minds stop thinking about the present and the future and stay wrapped in the past, they are awfully dull. I don`t want old dears saying, How old do you think I am? 48? No, I`m 78 and I`ve got all your records! Then I think it`s time they should grow up!

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you`ve conquered human nature.

`What should be, is.` As my grandmother explained it to our family the winter she lost three fingertips to frostbite when the furnace in her little house broke and she fell and cracked a hip while trying to light it, `Accepting life`s imperfections is not the secret. The secret, dears, is to understand life has none. How could it? We`ve got nothing to compare it to. We can dream something up, of course- some pretty maybe life where fingers are very hard and indestructible- but that`s pure mischief, darlings. Fingers freeze. It`s one of the things they like to do sometimes.`

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you`ve conquered human nature .

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you`ve conquered human nature