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Famous Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
“If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.”
“What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?”
“There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.”
“Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.”
“For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.”
“The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.”
“The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.”
“One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.”
“Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.”
“Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.”
“If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth”
“Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.”
“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”
“Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.”
“The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.”
“Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.”
“Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.”
“He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave”
“How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!”
“Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.”
“You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate”
“The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.”
“The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.”
“The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.”
“It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.”
“There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.”
“How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom”
“I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.”
“If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.”