Ellen Glasgow quotes

" The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions. " # Churches # Change # Choice

" All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. " # Change # Growth # Love

" Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. " # Attitude # Life and Living # Love

" Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. " # Age and Aging # Absurdity # Twentieth Century

" No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. " # Ideas # Love # Modern and Modernism

" Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. " # Literature # Violence # America

" Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting. " # Trouble # Men and Women # Women

" No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. " # Experience # Books - Reading # Death and Dying

" He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted -- and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone. " # Farming and Farmers # Work # Contentment

" He knows so little and knows it so fluently. " # Knowledge