Logan Pearsall Smith

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"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"

Logan Pearsall Smith

"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"

Logan Pearsall Smith

"The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"Present position and potential developments: some personal views Bayesian statistics, J.R.S.S.A 147: 245–259 (1984) 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."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"

Logan Pearsall Smith

"Present position and potential developments: some personal views Bayesian statistics, J.R.S.S.A 147: 245–259 (1984) 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."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."

Logan Pearsall Smith

"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."

Logan Pearsall Smith