Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smithwas an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th Century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography, Unforgotten Years, for which he may be best remembered...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 October 1865
CountryUnited States of America
Logan Pearsall Smith quotes about
kept-woman married married-women
Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.
remembrance tests enjoyment
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
carpe-diem people rich
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
time soul looks
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
razors sides meaning-of-life
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
equality odd-things universe
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.
talent mediocre best-sellers
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
hypocrite hypocrisy house
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
friends dream giving-up
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
brain cracks creeps
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
sorrow age ledges
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
science statistics ratios
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.
trust forgiveness truth
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
names suits facts
The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.