97 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.