Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

Golf is a mental disorder.

I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

Death, only, renders hope futile.

I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

Even theories must have foundations.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.