Booth Tarkington Quotes


"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age."
- Booth Tarkington
(Related: Age, Moments, Old)

"Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium."
- Booth Tarkington
(Related: Life, Time, Living, School, Waiting)

"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some."
- Booth Tarkington
(Related: Happiness)

"An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband."
- Booth Tarkington
(Related: Wife, Husband, Woman)

"He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires."
- Booth Tarkington
"Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions."
- Booth Tarkington
(Related: People, Arguments, Opinions)