Ring Lardner Famous Quotes
"'Are you lost, daddy' I asked tenderly. 'Shut up,' he explained."
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
"I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant."
Ring Lardner Quotations
"We do not attract what we want, But what we are."
James Allen
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
Johann von Goethe
"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved."
Maurice Chevalier
"Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME."
Anon
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Emerich Edward Dalbert
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan
"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
Plato