Ring Lardner Quotes

Shut up,' he explained.

Are you lost, Daddy?" I asked tenderly. "Shut up," he explained.

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

How can you write if you can't cry?

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.