Quotes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher