Quotes by Ring Lardner

• I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
• They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
• The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
• The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
• He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.
• An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
• A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
• No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.