Quotes by Clarence Day

• Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
• You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
• A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
• Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.
• We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
• If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.
• If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
• Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
• Reason is the servant of instinct.
• The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
• There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
• Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
• We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
• Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.