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Harry Golden Quotes

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden
Inspirational, Motivational, Work

The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving.

Harry Golden
Turkeys, Arrogance, Toss

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

Harry Golden
Book, Reading, Simple
Harry Golden (1964). “So what else is new?”

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.

Harry Golden
Destroying, Tolerate, Conservatism

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

Harry Golden
Civilization, Rewards, Restaurants
Harry Golden (1967). “The Best of Harry Golden”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square.

Harry Golden
New York, Squares, Darkness
Harry Golden (1967). “The Best of Harry Golden”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

Harry Golden
Mean, Adversity, Long

The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

Harry Golden
Beach, Book, Reading

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.

Harry Golden
Travel, Sex, Adventure

No man does right by a woman at a party.

Harry Golden
Party, Men, Doe

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