Random Quotes
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.Ulysses S. Grant
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.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision, 1933
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)