Quotes by Editors - Page 5

When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results ... not great results but enough to encourage me.
Edgar Watson Howe
Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.
The Independent
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
Cyril Connolly
The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warner
Instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little better.
Edgar Watson Howe
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane
Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go while you may enjoy the flowers you may not eat them.
Edgar Watson Howe
Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.
Edgar Watson Howe
When 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
The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent but in failing to use that one talent.
Edgar Watson Howe
Nor need we power or splendor wide hall or lordly dome the good the true the tender-these form the wealth of home.
Sarah Josepha Hale
After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.
Nancy Hale
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Clifton Fadiman
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Cyril Connolly
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
A love of fashion makes the economy go round.
Liz Tilberis
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Edna Woolman Chase
In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong not by number of heads counted at the dinner table but by the rituals you help family members create by the memories you share by the commitment of time caring and love you show to one another and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.
Marge Kennedy
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky
Out of the chill and the shadow Into the thrill and the shine Out of the dearth and the famine Into the fullness divine.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
They fail and they alone who have not striven.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty like a great ship its flags flying full of holes.
George Jean Nathan
Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.
E. I. Youmans
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman
There is only one thing people like that is good for them a good night's sleep.
Edgar Watson Howe
One's first book kiss home run is always the best.
Clifton Fadiman
Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.
Maxwell Perkins
What have I done for you England my England? What is there I would not do England my own?
W. E. Henley
In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.
Bruce Gould
Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Henry S. Canby
An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.
Sean O'Faolain
I drink to make other people interesting.
George Jean Nathan
A torch-light procession marching down your throat.
John L. O'Sullivan
A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
Edgar Watson Howe
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
J.G. Holland
There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.
Gilbert Maxwell
If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.
Simeon Strunsky
All charming people have something to conceal usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly
When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.
Charles Péguy
Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes
A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
Louis Dudek
No man's credit is as good as his money.
E.W. Howe
If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.
Edgar Watson Howe
Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.
Edgar Watson Howe
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
Cyril Connolly
A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable they know that they have betrayed themselves that they have taken material which should have a life of its own to disperse it in noises upon the air.
Cyril Connolly
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Edgar Watson Howe
One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story the 1970s hit which immortalized the phrase "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.
Marge Kennedy
Men love because they are afraid of themselves afraid of the loneliness that lives in them and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.
V. F. Calverton
Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things who is a "middle-of-the-roader" in everything and I will show you someone who is insecure.
G. Aiken Taylor
If you go to church and like the singing better than the preaching that's not orthodox.
Edgar Watson Howe
No Santa Claus! Thank God he lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now Virginia nay ten times ten thousand years from now he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Francis P. Church
A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday.
Thomas R. Ybarra
Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.
B. K. Sandwell
Canada's national bird is the grouse.
Stuart Keate
There has never been a war of Canadian origin nor for a Canadian cause.
William Arthur Deacon