Ellen Glasgow

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#difference #dimensions #grave #only #rut

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#attitude

Grandfather used to say that when a woman got ready to fall in love the man didn't matter, because she could drape her feeling over a scarecrow and pretend he was handsome... ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#ellen-glasgow #love

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#easier #hard #life #make #take

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#desire #illogical #more #nothing #remembrance

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#hard #life #make #nothing #take

He knows so little and knows it so fluently. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#knows #little

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#after #away #chief #financial #independence

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#came #difference #events #exalted #i

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#force #mediocrity #more #numbers #only