Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smithwas an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th Century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography, Unforgotten Years, for which he may be best remembered...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 October 1865
CountryUnited States of America
life birthday success
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?
stars hate fascination
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.
greed soul lust
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.
golden slot-machines pennies
All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
art soul gallery
How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom
money sex reason
Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at our peril.
moon echoes hair
An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
beauty trying loses
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
husband wife cynical
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
heart world tongue
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
giving new-friendship might
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
science statistics ratios
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.
inspirational ifs
If it's to be, it's up to me.
ivory-tower towers gutters
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.