Ring Lardner Quotes

"They gave each other a smile with a future in it."
- Ring Lardner
(Related: Future, Smile)

"The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do."
- Ring Lardner
(Related: Happiness)

"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have."
- Ring Lardner
(Related: Family)

"He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered."
- Ring Lardner

"An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve."
- Ring Lardner
(Related: Mistakes)

"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
- Ring Lardner
(Related: Mistake, Self, Temptation, Writers)

"No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it."
- Ring Lardner