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Marcelene Cox

  • It is possible to be so busy going on or off a diet that there isn't time left to enjoy life. Once people ate everything set before them, and had the courage to digest it too.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • He sharpened his wits on the edge of her nerves.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • She was always in good rumor.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • She talks with deliberation, as if pressing out a ruffle on each word.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • It is never the other woman's dust that annoys, just our own.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Civilization is only the advance from shoeless toes to toeless shoes.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • It is a mystery why adults expect perfection from children. Few grownups can get through a whole day without making a mistake.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Eating without conversation is only stoking.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • A child who constantly hears 'Don't,' 'Be careful,' 'Stop' will eventually be overtaken by schoolmates, business associates, and rival suitors.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Parenthood: that state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • To some women, housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Weather means more when you have a garden: there's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your lettuce and green beans.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Children whose problems aren't recognized become problem children.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • There are two times in a woman's life when clothes are important: when she is young and when she is old.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • A child can never be better than what his parents think of him.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Life is like a camel: you can make it do anything except back up.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Children should not be condemned for accidents. Compared with an adult, the child is all left hand.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Politeness in an individual is as necessary as paint on both sides of a fence, for a person, like a fence, faces out as well as in.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Obstinacy in children is like a kite; it is kept up just as long as we pull against it.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • When a telephone rings, the average man settles deeper into his chair with the observation, 'I wonder who that can be?'

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • He looked as if his mind constantly shifted from one foot to the other.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Three stages in a parent's life: nutrition, dentition, tuition.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • It's a wise father that knows his own child—hood.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Raising children is like baking bread: it has to be a slow process or you end up with an overdone crust and an underdone interior.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Heredity: the thing a child gets from the other side of the family.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • There are two kinds of people in the world: those who live poor on a lot and those who live rich on a little.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Heredity may be the Cellophane wrapper around a child which environment fails to penetrate.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Adolescence is to life what baking powder is to cake. (And it's better to have too much than too little.)

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • A child does not thrive on what he is prevented from doing, but on what he actually does.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • To give children everything is often worse than giving them nothing.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Children always take the line of most persistence.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Piecrust is like a wild animal; when it sees fear in the eyes of its tamer it goes out of control.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Invitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • A day so soft you could wrap a baby in it.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Time: the one thing you take with you.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • No one is ever warmed by wool pulled over his eyes.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • The illusions of childhood are necessary experiences: a child should not be denied a balloon just because an adult knows that sooner or later it will burst.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • When she knew a secret it no longer was.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Why is it that when anything goes without saying, it never does?

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • A teen-ager out of sight is like a kite in the clouds; even though you can't see it you feel the tug on the string.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it ends.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Growing old is like riding in a train: we seem to sit still while the landscape moves by.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • The ultimate mistake in discipline is the ultimatum.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • A sense of humor in marriage acts as a lightning rod on a building: grounds the sparks from the air.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Where there's a will there's a way, and where there's a child there's a will.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Youth is stranger than fiction.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • All the successful parents I have observed seem to possess one common quality: that of being able to visit with their children.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • After you have children, the economic law reverses to Demand and Supply.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • A good home is a place where children can do what they like ... but not to somebody else.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • To heir is human.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Trouble, like the hill ahead, straightens out when you advance upon it.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • An adolescent doesn't always know where he's going; only that he isn't there.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • When a person who is fat says it runs in the family, you can be pretty sure the family never did much running.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • The mark of a good parent is that he can have fun while being one.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • The difficulty between parents and adolescents is not always caused by the fact that parents fail to remember what growing up was like, but that they do.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • The test of being a good host is how well the departing guest likes himself.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • 'Under new management' may mean a baby has just been born.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Whenever I try to recall that long-ago first day at school only one memory shines through: my father held my hand.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • No man knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan, and raised an adolescent.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Supplementing an income may mean being more economical with the one you have.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Two important things to teach a child: to do and to do without.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Why is it that the person who needs no introduction usually gets the longest one?

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • When raising rabbits, it doesn't take long to get double your bunny back.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • To raise good human beings it is not only necessary to be a good mother and a good father, but to have had a good mother and father.

    • Marcelene Cox,
    • in Ladies' Home Journal ()
  • Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

    • Marcelene Cox
  • The girl who marries for money may find herself in debt for life.

    • Marcelene Cox
  • Money enables a man to get along without an education, and education enables him to get along without money.

    • Marcelene Cox

Marcelene Cox, U.S. writer, humorist

(1900)

Full name: Marcelene Keister Cox