Clarence Day Jr. Quotes & Sayings

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality. — Clarence Day Jr.

If your parents didn't have any children, there is a good chance that you won't have any. — Clarence Day Jr.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves. — Clarence Day Jr.

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.

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.

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared-for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so
and all the more
what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is
blind or not
a good world to live in, a promising universe. — Clarence Day Jr.

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.

Every month when the bills came in, there was trouble. Mother seemed to have no great extravagances. But she loved pretty things. She had a passion for china, for instance. She saw hundreds of beautiful cups and saucers that it was hard to walk away from and leave. She knew she couldn't buy them, and mustn't, but every so often she did. No one purchase seemed large by itself, but they kept mounting up, and Father declared that she bought more china than the Windsor Hotel. — Clarence Day Jr.