Clarence Day Quotes & Sayings

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full. — Clarence Day

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. — Clarence Day

Reason is the servant of instinct. — Clarence Day

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. — Clarence Day

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. — Clarence Day

If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours. — Clarence Day

Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous. — Clarence Day

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. — Clarence Day

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. — Clarence Day

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. — Clarence Day

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. — Clarence Day

The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still. — Clarence Day

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. — Clarence Day

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. — Clarence Day

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first. — Clarence Day

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece. — Clarence Day

The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth. — Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for. — Clarence Day

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. — Clarence Day

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. — Clarence Day

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. — Clarence Day

Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting. — Clarence Day

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. — Clarence Day

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. — Clarence Day

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation. — Clarence Day

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. — Clarence Day

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. — Clarence Day

Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will. — Clarence Day

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. — Clarence Day

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. — Clarence Day

The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall. — Clarence Day

Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian. — Clarence Day