61 Quotes by Clarence Day

Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.

Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.

The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.