Dorothy Dix Quotes

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

  Dorothy Dix

  Topics in Truth

• You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

  Dorothy Dix

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

  Dorothy Dix

• There isn’t a single human being who hasn’t plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

  Dorothy Dix

• The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

  Dorothy Dix

• Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

  Dorothy Dix

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

  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

• For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man’s house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

  Dorothy Dix

  Topics in Age, Funny

Dorothy Dix (9)

Birth:	18th November, 1861
Death:	16th December, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Dorothy Dix was an American journalist. As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, she was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death. Her advice on marriage was syndicated in newspapers around the world. With an estimated audience of 60 million readers. Her journalism career began after a chance meeting with Eliza Nicholson, the owner of the New Orleans newspaper Daily Picayune. She graduated from Hollins Institute in 1883.

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