There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Logan Pearsall Smith Quotations
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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.
To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?