Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
More Quotes from Dorothy Canfield Fisher:
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of decision.
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
She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Fathers QuotesTo take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
Edward Gorey
I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.
David Strathairn
I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
Tim Cahill