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Martha Washington Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.”
— Martha Washington, Oak and Dagger
Tagged: Life, dull, Prisoner, Cage, Prison, Captive
“When I was much younger, I should probably have enjoyed the innocent gayeties of life, as much as most of my age.”
— Martha Washington, Mary and Martha, the Mother and the Wife of George Washington
Tagged: young, Youth, enjoy, Happiness, innocent, Innocence, Age, Life, Mindset
“For everybody and every thing conspire to make me as contented as possible in it; yet I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.”
— Martha Washington, America's First Ladies: Their Uncommon Wisdom, from Martha Washington to Laura Bush
Tagged: venity, human, Affairs, Public Life, Society, Government, Politics, Content
“A dependence is, I think, a wretched state and you have enough if you will manage it right.”
— Martha Washington, America's First Ladies: Their Uncommon Wisdom, from Martha Washington to Laura Bush
Tagged: Dependence, state, Will, Mindset, Affairs, Determination
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.”
— Martha Washington, Sometimes Being the Queen is All We Have to Hold Onto
Tagged: Happiness, Satisfaction, Content, disposition, Personality, circumstance, Location, surrounding, Life, Society
“There are certain bounds set for me which I must not depart from; and as I cannot do as I like, I am obstinate, and stay at home a great deal.”
— Martha Washington, Martha Washington: An American Life
Tagged: bounds, boundaries, obstinate, stubborn, Movement
“The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths Peace.”
— Martha Washington, Martha Washington America's First Ladies: Their Uncommon Wisdom, from Martha Washington to Laura Bush
Tagged: Difficulties, difficult, Stress, Distress, Hardship, War, forget, Forgotten, pleasant, Peace
“Look upon this advice in the friendly way it is meant, as I wish you to be a independent as your circumstances will admit and to be so, is to exert yourself in the management of your estate. If you do not no one else will.”
— Martha Washington, America's First Ladies: Their Uncommon Wisdom, from Martha Washington to Laura Bush
Tagged: Advice, personal affairs, estate, Circumstances, circumstance, happening, Management, Independent, Dependence
“I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.”
— Martha Washington, Martha Washington: An American Life
Tagged: Cheer, cheerful, Happy, Happiness, situation, Experience, Mindset, mentality, disposition, Control
“There are few people who can manage more than their own business.”
— Martha Washington, America's First Ladies: Their Uncommon Wisdom, from Martha Washington to Laura Bush
Tagged: manage, Business, personal, Management, personal affairs
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