Top 43 Clarence Day Quotes
#1. As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.
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#2. If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.
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#3. The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
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#4. Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
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#5. Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.
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#6. The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.
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#7. We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
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#9. A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
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#10. We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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#11. The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.
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#12. This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.
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#13. Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.
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#14. 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.
Clarence Day Jr.
#15. The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
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#16. Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.
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#17. With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
Clarence Darrow
#18. It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.
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#20. The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.
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#21. Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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#22. You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
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#23. I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.
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#24. Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.
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#25. As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day Jr.
#26. Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Clarence Day Jr.
#27. Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.
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#28. As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
Clarence Clemons
#29. The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.
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#30. The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and
unwilling serfs
Clarence Darrow
#31. The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.
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#32. The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.
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#34. Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
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#35. Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.
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#36. The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.
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#37. And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mewed up ...
William Shakespeare
#38. When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
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#39. Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.
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#40. Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.
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#41. The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.
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#42. If your parents didn't have any children, there is a good chance that you won't have any.
Clarence Day Jr.
#43. Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
Clarence Day Jr.
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