(17 quotes found)
“If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.”
Clarence Day
“Information's pretty thin stuff, unless mixed with experience”
“If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours”
“You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own”
“If you don't go to other men's funerals,' he told Father stiffly, 'they won't go to yours.”
“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.”
“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”
“The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation”
“Ants are good citizens they place group interests first”
“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.”
