Booth Tarkington
7 quotes
Biography
"The somewhere we're goin' to, and got to go to if we don't want to get wiped out, it's somewhere everlastingly and eternally ahead! It's like to-morrow; when we get there we aren't there; we got to keep goin', and we got to everlastingly and eternally keep goin' – and goin' fast! If we don't, the Almighty hasn't got a bit o' use for us; He turns us right into dust and scattered old bones, and nothin's left of our whole country and our finest cities except some street paving and a few cellars with weeds in 'em."
"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some."
"Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age."
"An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband."
"Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions."
"So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some."
"Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age."