61 Quotes by Clarence Day

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.

Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn’t have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

If your parents didn’t have any children, there’s a good chance that you won’t have any.

You can’t sweep other people off their feet, if you can’t be swept off your own.

Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

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.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn’t know enough to take a vacation.

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 egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone’s ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e’er was caught, The harlot’s lip, the maiden’s leg, They each and all came from an egg.