Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes - Page 2

Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.