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
funny death humor
If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.
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.
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.
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.
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.
baby children thinking
Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.
world firsts doe
The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.
fields energy certain
The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.
book fall heart
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the heart of men centuries dead. -
hurt money taken
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
freedom sacrifice rights
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.