What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum
for want of courage to shake the tree?
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
for want of courage to shake the tree?
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
Related:
- If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Logan Pearsall... - 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 people... - It is almost worth while to be cheated; people's little frauds have an
interest which amply repays what they cost us.
Logan Pearsall... - Don't tell your friends their social faults: they will cure the fault and
never forgive you.
Logan Pearsall... - All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom, I have been pouring
van-loads of information into the vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
Logan Pearsall... - People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865... - The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older
people,
and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. ... - The vitality of a new movement in art or letters can be pretty
accurately gauged by the fury it arouses.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865... - Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover there is no God.
Logan Pearsall...
From the same category:
- Go ahead. Back up to the RAM disk.
I dare you... - The reason why worry kills more people
than work is
that more people worry than work... - The sound of fresh rain run-off splashing from the roof reminded me of the
sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine.
Deep Thoughts, by Jack... - It is too far up for you to
reach... - I know a politician who believes that there are two sides to every
question-
and takes them both. -- Ken...
