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Famous Barbara Mertz Quotes
“Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.”
“To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.”
“Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.”
“Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.”
“It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!”
“When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.”
“It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.”
“Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.”
“a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.”
“Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.”
“A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.”
“Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.”
“Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.”
“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
“I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.”
“Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.”