"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
― Logan P. Smith
Topic(s):
Experience
More From Logan P. Smith
- "Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste."
- "The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood."
- "How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"
More In Experience
- "I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You’re young enough to get away with things, but you’re old enough, too."― Liv Tyler
- "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."― George Washington
- "An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one’s experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision."― Sholem Asch