Clarence Day
Clarence Day
Clarence Shepard Day, Jr.was an American author and cartoonist, best known for his 1935 work Life With Father...
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth18 November 1874
angel done modesty
As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.
mistake world infirmity
This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.
song men generations
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.
life stars dark
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.
funny death humor
If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.
fun hunting want
The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.
art ideas wish
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.
curiosity pausing facts
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
self justice tests
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
art reading writing
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
nature way firsts
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
knowledge creating dupes
Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.
dog integrity havens
Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
children parent chance
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.