Top 60 Maryrose Wood Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.”

— Maryrose Wood

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2. “Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.”

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3. “All books are judged by their covers until they are read.”

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4. “Many are happy to give advice; few are happy to take it.”

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5. “Busy hands and idle minds have knitted many a sweater; Busy minds and idle hands have knitted many a brow.”

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6. “When things are looking up, there’s no point in looking elsewhere” -Agatha Swanburne.”

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7. “Complaining doesn’t butter the biscuit” -Agatha Swanburne.”

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8. “An open mind lets ideas out, as well as in” -Agatha Swanburne.”

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9. “You’ll find it in the last place you look, so, for heaven’s sake, keep looking until you find it!”

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10. “That which can be purchases at a shop is easily left in a taxi; that which you carry inside you is difficult, though not impossible, to misplace” -Agatha Swanburne.”

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11. “To do something familiar and succeed is no surprise, but to try something new and fail – why, that is the start of an adventure.”

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12. “The difference between a dream and a plan is a to-do list.”

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13. “There is power in words used accurately and well, and tragedy and missed train connections in words used carelessly.”

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14. “When the impossible becomes merely difficult, that’s when you know you’ve won.” – Agatha Swanburne.”

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15. “Feeling one ought to apologize is not quite the same thing as saying ‘I am sorry’ ” -Penelope.”

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16. “Within reason” is not the sort of place one can easily find on a map; in fact, its location may vary considerably from one day to the next.”

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17. “Agatha Swanburne – “Morning may not put your problems in a new light, but it at least puts them in a new day.”

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18. “Agatha Swanburne – “Doing your best is no cause for regret.”

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19. “Agatha Swanburn – “Luck is only luck; the bad is often merely good in disguise.”

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20. “Agatha Swanburne – “All things look different close up.”

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21. “Agatha Swanburne – “Do your best before lunch and do your best after lunch. During lunch, have a sandwich.”

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22. “In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, ‘Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.’”

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23. “To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions” -Agatha Swanburne.”

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24. “If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.”

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25. “Plants make the air! Do you understand what that means? Our food, our air, our very lives come from the plants. How could they not be of divine origin, of divine intelligence? How can we deny that, in some essential way, they are no less than you or I?”

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26. “If you want fresh ideas in your head, get some fresh mud on your boots.”

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27. “You’re not where you were, and you’re not where you’re going. You’re here, so pay attention!”

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28. “There is no harm in carrying a borrowed umbrella, but toothbrushes and opinions should always be one’s own.”

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29. “This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to precipitate unnecessary wars as well as a painful gaseous condition called stock market bubbles.”

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30. “Do not worry, Lumawoo.” Beowulf sniffed deeply. “We will follow the smell of chickens.” “He means baby dodos,” Cassiopeia corrected.”

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31. “That is the purpose of museums, of course. One does not go merely to collect facts and souvenirs and picture post cards, but to enlarge one’s notion of all that has been, and all that is, and all that might be. In this way we begin to understand what part each of us was born to play in the marvelous tale of existence.”

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32. “Flounder is extinct!” they wept. “Nevermore, flounder!”

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33. “Penelope frowned. “I thought you had a headache?” “In my leg I do,” Beowulf explained. “From chicken pox.” He hopped on his one good leg and made chicken noises. “Buck-buck, buck-buck!”

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34. “If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.”

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35. “Agatha Swanburne – “No hopeless case is truly without hope.”

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36. “Agatha Swanburn – “A journey of a thousand miles is best spent napping.”

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37. “She had chosen Dante because she found the rhyme scheme pleasingly jaunty, but she realized too late that the Inferno’s tale of sinners being cruelly punished in the afterlife was much too bloody and disturbing to be suitable for young minds. Penelope could tell this by the way the children hung on her every word and demanded “More, more!” each time she reached the end of a canto and tried to stop.”

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38. “Agatha Swanburne – “So many cupcakes, so little time.”

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39. “Agatha Swanburne – “Peas first, biscuits last, make for a happy meal.”

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40. “Weed Rises to his feet. “Nature,” he says softly, “makes so many beautiful things. But I did not know until you that nature could make a girl so beautiful.”

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41. “You know I believe that all children should have pets if it can possibly be managed, she wrote. I feel it is beneficial to give even the littlest children responsibility for something more helpless and in need of care than themselves. In this way selfishness is avoided, generosity is nurtured, and the heart’s affections are exercised until they can bend and stretch to encompass all the world’s creatures.”

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42. “Agatha Swanburne – “Some things just sound better in French.”

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43. “Agatha Swanburne – “Not all things should be baked in a pie.”

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44. “This time all the Incorrigibles chimed in. “Nevermore!” they cried. Somehow a turnip found its way from Cassiopeia’s plate to Alexander’s. Penelope tried to kick a warning under the table, but her foot hit the admiral’s cane instead and gave a nasty stub to her toe.”

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45. “There is a charming little bakery down the street, called the Charming Little Bakery.”

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46. “Agatha Swanburn – “This and that left here and there means a trip and a fall every now and then.”

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47. “Agatha Swanburn – “Never underestimate a Swanburn girl, for a Swanburn girl never underestimates herself.”

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48. “Like a milk mustache, faint traces of you persist; love leaves evidence.”

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49. “I supposed this is what is meant by ‘growing up’... Find out the difference between what one expected one’s life would be like and how things really are” -Lady Constance.”

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50. “True optimism, as Agatha Swanburne defined it, is the habit of expecting happy endings in a way that keeps one cheerfully working to make them come true.”

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