Quotes by Editors - Page 4

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries
After a debauch of thundershower the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When people hear good music it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe
A loafer never works except when there is a fire then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
Edgar Watson Howe
Even if a farmer intends to loaf he gets up in time to get an early start.
Edgar Watson Howe
October turned my maple's leaves to gold The most are gone now here and there one lingers Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.
T. B. Aldrich
The rich aren't like us they pay less taxes.
Peter De Vries
If a man has money it is usually a sign too that he knows how to take care of it don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
Edgar Watson Howe
There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money and that is to enjoy earning it.
Edgar Watson Howe
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
Sean O'Faolain
Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly they don't have to sew buttons.
Heywood Broun
A man should be taller older heavier uglier and hoarser than his wife.
Edgar Watson Howe
There is no word equivalent to 'cuckold' for women.
Joseph Epstein
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
Louis Dudek
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds great hearts true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy Men who possess opinions and a will Men who love honor men who cannot lie.
J.G. Holland
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.
Dr. Thomas Bowdler
Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe an unconditional state that characterizes human nature a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.
Emily Hilburn Sell
Joys divided are increased.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Blessed are the joymakers.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
Sloppy raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
Dennis Trudell
Language as well as the faculty of speech was the immediate gift of God.
Noah Webster
Mary had a little lamb It's fleece was white as snow And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go.
Sarah J. Hale
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think not what you think.
Arthur Brisbane
Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.
Edgar Watson Howe
In making our decisions we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us.
Fulton Oursler
I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
Cyril Connolly
Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.
Russell W. Davenport
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries
A man should be taller older heavier uglier and hoarser than his wife.
E.W. Howe
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
Peter De Vries
Novelist Peter de Vries like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humour is not to be taken seriously.
Timothy Foote
A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.
Edgar Watson Howe
To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.
Henry Hewes
I have no history but the length of my bones.
Robin Skelton
In real love you want the other person's good.
Margaret Anderson
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.
Lou Ann Walker
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George Prentice
If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril Connolly
Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first some unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Bette Howland
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. Lucas
Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.
Shirley Abbott
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warner
Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
Cyril Connolly
Those who seek happiness miss it and those who discuss it lack it.
Holbrook Jackson
The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot " to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
William Maxwell
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
Charles Péguy
Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Péguy
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
Edgar Watson Howe
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warner
If a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edgar Watson Howe
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis