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Zoe Akins on Mother's Day

1886–1958 United States

← All quotes by Zoe Akins

5 quotes

Englishmen are like that. They love life more and value it less than any other people in the world.

Déclassée (1919)

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Daddys Gone A-Hunting (1921)

No one can ever help loving anyone.

Greatness (1922)

... there's a great strangeness about love. ... Yes, I'm very sure that love is the strangest thing in the world—much stranger than death—or—or just life.

Daddys Gone A-Hunting (1921)

So much do I love wandering,
So much I love the sea and sky,
That it will be a piteous thing
In one small grave to lie!

The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zoe Akins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.