Clarence Day

Author

1874-11-18

Quotes by Clarence Day

• Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

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• The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, art is labor.

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• The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

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• Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

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• Dogs have more love than integrity They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

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• When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

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• Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

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• The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

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• Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of facts, far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

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• As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

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• You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

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• This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

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• The real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

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• The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.

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• The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

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• Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on reading, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative, and made their thoughts weak.

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• A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

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• Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

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• The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

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• It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

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