Quotes by Mary Little

• There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
• It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.
• In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.
• If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.
• He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
• The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
• Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
• The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.
• Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
• A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.