Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Dorothy Dix

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Dorothy Dix.

Last updated on April 16, 2025.

Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, widely known by the pen name Dorothy Dix, was an American journalist and columnist. As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Dix 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, she became a popular and recognized figure on her travels abroad. In addition to her journalistic work, she joined in the campaign for woman suffrage and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

American - Journalist | November 18, 1861 - December 16, 1951

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You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

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

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

Dorothy Dix

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

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

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

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

Dorothy Dix

Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

Dorothy Dix

The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.

Dorothy Dix

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Dorothy Dix

There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.

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

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.

Dorothy Dix

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

Dorothy Dix

The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

Dorothy Dix