Dorothy Dix quote: "I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us."

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
DOROTHY DIX

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak...
DOROTHY DIX

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the b...
DOROTHY DIX

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment ...
DOROTHY DIX

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something...
DOROTHY DIX

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak...
DOROTHY DIX

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in...
DOROTHY DIX

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and depende...
DOROTHY DIX

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the...
DOROTHY DIX

Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yours...
DOROTHY DIX

We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
DOROTHY DIX

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
DOROTHY DIX

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs ...
DOROTHY DIX

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads
DOROTHY DIX

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that make...
DOROTHY DIX

So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the reme...
DOROTHY DIX

Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.
DOROTHY DIX

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not...
OTTO DIX

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years after...
OTTO DIX

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
OTTO DIX

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reaso...
OTTO DIX

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is ...
OTTO DIX

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I'...
OTTO DIX

I will either be famous or infamous.
OTTO DIX

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary...
OTTO DIX

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beaut...
OTTO DIX

I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long,...
DOROTHEA DIX

This indicates, I think, the end product of a culture of cover-up and an inability of the ministry t...
ADRIAN DIX

They need to be called to account. They need to explain. It is not good enough to say the job is har...
ADRIAN DIX

What we've seen over the last few years in response to this case is the culture of cover up and deni...
ADRIAN DIX

We were overly ambitious . . . We just did too many things and they stretched our capacity to manage...
ADRIAN DIX

It really has been a collective effort.
ADRIAN DIX

I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of oppositio...
DOROTHEA DIX

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the youn...
DOROTHEA DIX

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the ...
DOROTHEA DIX

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
DOROTHEA DIX

My wish is to be known only thru my work.
DOROTHEA DIX

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by couns...
DOROTHEA DIX

Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's misera...
DOROTHEA DIX

I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to b...
DOROTHEA DIX

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the...
DOROTHEA DIX

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and...
DOROTHEA DIX

There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, u...
DOROTHEA DIX

I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sor...
DOROTHEA DIX

Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot lear...
DOROTHEA DIX

Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared...
DOROTHEA DIX

I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me stren...
DOROTHEA DIX

Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty....
DOROTHEA DIX

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.
DOROTHEA DIX

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on...
DOROTHEA DIX

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I ...
DOROTHEA DIX

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passiv...
DOROTHEA DIX

Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; ...
DOROTHEA DIX

The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it we...
DOROTHEA DIX

I don't think that when we have congressmen making decisions on rainforests and bridges to nowhere t...
BILL DIX

I think Patrick is a fine young man, rooted in principles of limited government and standing up for ...
BILL DIX

I stand by the president and his decision to take the fight to the terrorists. Let's not forget that...
BILL DIX

I'm here tonight because I want to be your next Congressman. My last 10 years in the Iowa Legislatur...
BILL DIX

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beaut...
DOROTHEA DIX

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty er...
DOROTHEA DIX

What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of ne...
DOROTHEA DIX

Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for ...
DOROTHEA DIX

The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of dis...
DOROTHEA DIX

With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impo...
DOROTHEA DIX

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him...
OTTO DIX

My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.
DOROTHEA DIX

The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the perse...
DOROTHEA DIX

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
GEORGE DIX

I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, t...
DOROTHEA DIX

Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the t...
DOROTHEA DIX

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, exce...
DOROTHEA DIX

The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teac...
DOROTHEA DIX

In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something...
DOROTHEA DIX

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
DOROTHEA DIX

The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a...
DOROTHEA DIX

What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yello...
DOROTHEA DIX

Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbo...
DOROTHEA DIX

The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes
DOROTHEA DIX

I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of...
DOROTHEA DIX

The problem that we're facing is not unique to Hernando County. All 67 counties in the state are fac...
DENNIS DIX

I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to th...
DOROTHEA DIX

Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manusc...
DOROTHEA DIX

If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the...
DOROTHEA DIX

We believe in giving a doctor rehabilitation rather than throwing him on the scrap heap.
ANDREW DIX

It's about public protection. If it's possible within the context of public protection to enable the...
ANDREW DIX

I think it's fiscally irresponsible, and it ignores the evidence of light rail around the country. P...
BEVERLY DIX

We'll all be watching the vote. It's a very important vote. Hopefully, the decision will be made in ...
BEVERLY DIX

This is an important decision that affects all Clark County taxpayers.
BEVERLY DIX

This is definitely one step, but there are many questions that have been raised by the trial that ha...
PAMELA DIX

To serve someone a citation, you have to do it in person. If it?s an absentee landlord, it?s cost pr...
LOUISE DIX

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you ...
DOROTHEA DIX

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
DOROTHEA DIX

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toi...
DOROTHEA DIX

While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in p...
DOROTHEA DIX

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, exce...
DOROTHEA DIX

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something...
DOROTHEA DIX

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!
DOROTHEA DIX

If these [motions] are going to be seriously pursued there is a lot to be resolved.
GEORGE DIX

We just gave up too many points in the first half. The second half we just wanted to come out and pr...
RYAN DIX

He's a great kid. He's sacrificed a lot for our program, and is only going to get better as a player...
JOE DIX

But the truth is the highest consideration.
DOROTHEA DIX

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.
DOROTHEA DIX

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as th...
DOROTHEA DIX

As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no retu...
DOROTHEA DIX

Well, there is some priority decision-making that will have to be done by the board when we re-adopt...
DENNIS DIX

The problem is that the costs are accelerating faster than our fees are accelerating.
DENNIS DIX

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
DOROTHEA DIX

All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, an...
DOROTHEA DIX

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and t...
DOROTHEA DIX

That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the tr...
DOROTHEA DIX

Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to b...
DOROTHEA DIX

I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties ar...
DOROTHEA DIX

It's possible something Ellis said out of court might be used not only against him but Mr. DeLay. Th...
GEORGE DIX

My judgment is that simply because a prosecutor decides that one approach is more effective than ano...
GEORGE DIX

This is serious stuff. They have obviously upped the ante.
GEORGE DIX

I think we?re very frustrated because we haven?t been able to get our hands around the problem to de...
LOUISE DIX

Our bark is worse than our bite, and people know it.
LOUISE DIX

They've been looking at him for a couple of years and I think where they want to play him will be go...
JOE DIX

We just couldn't make shots. They made them and we didn't.
JOE DIX

It's just evolved every year. It's almost at the point where (the win total) can't be broken unless ...
JOE DIX

We will definitely earn it this year, not that we didn't in the past. But with this team and some of...
JOE DIX

I thought both guys did a great job of stepping up when the team needed them. You couldn't have aske...
JOE DIX

I also thought Walter was much more aggressive than the last few games and showed the things he can ...
JOE DIX

Our intensity on defense was much, much better. I thought we responded well as a team after the loss...
JOE DIX

Lee Coleman was the difference (between Saturday and Tuesday). Anybody who thinks he's not valuable ...
JOE DIX

We had a nice run (with the streak) but it's not the main thing. That's for the fans to enjoy. What ...
JOE DIX

I think everyone saw (tonight) just how important Lee is to this team. We had guys handling the ball...
JOE DIX

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
JOHN A. DIX

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries...
DOROTHY DUNNETT

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
DOROTHY KILGALLEN

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it...
DOROTHY PARKER

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

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Dorothy Dix

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

Dorothy Dix

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