Edgar Wilson Nye Quotes

#1. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

Edgar Wilson Nye

#2. I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.

Edgar Wilson Nye

#3. The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

Edgar Wilson Nye

#4. Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.

Edgar Wilson Nye

#5. The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

#6. Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.

Edgar Wilson Nye