Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
Top 91 wise famous quotes and sayings by Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith Famous Quotes & Sayings
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.
Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.
People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
All our lives we are putting pennies - our most golden pennies - into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
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 stay sober.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares
if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at our peril.
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.