24 quotes found
Essayist · American
American essayist
“Humor brings insight and tolerance.”
“It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.”
“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.”
“We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.”
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.”
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ”
“A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam o...”
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
“A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.”
“It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.”
“It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.”
“A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.”
“We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.”
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
“The tourist may complain of other tourists but he would be lost without them.”
“We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.”
“It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.”
“Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.”
“Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.”
“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”
