Quotes by : Logan Pearsall Smith

The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.

There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Every author however modest keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell....

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?....

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists....

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists....

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed....

There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.