Logan P. Smith Quotes
"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: People, Blood, Hygiene)
"The newest books are those that never grow old."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Books, Old)
"The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Old, Want)
"The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Love, Vocation)
"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Art, Vitality)
"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Income)
"There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: People, Houses)
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: First, Mankind, Want)
"There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Men)
"Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: God, Mammon)
"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 stay sober."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Day)
"We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast."
- Logan P. Smith
"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Courage, Want)
"What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?"
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: People)
"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter."
- Logan P. Smith
"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers."
- Logan P. Smith
"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: People, Being)
"It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Ecstasy)
"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Advice, Man, Sound)
"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: People, Conscience)
"If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Soul, Leisure, Losing, May)
"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Truth, Thought, Want)
"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Trying, Youth)
"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Life, Success, Being, Years)
"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Vanity)
"Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: People, Charm, World)
"All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Life, Information, Mind)
"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Love, Amusement, Malice)
"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Life, Friend, Man, Succeed)
"A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Talent)
"Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Heaven, Sun)
"Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Behavior, Names, Past)
"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Income, Temperament)
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Life, People, Reading)
"Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Will, Writers)
"People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Life, Thought, People, Public, Self)
"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Happiness, Taste, Wine)