Logan P. Smith Quotes

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Logan P. Smith

Funny, Truth, Liar

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Logan P. Smith

Wisdom, Great, Give

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?
Logan P. Smith

Success, Life, Enough

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 P. Smith

Life, Enjoy, Two

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

Love, Friendly, Touch

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

Funny, Two, Others

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan P. Smith

Funny, Life, Reading

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
Logan P. Smith

Through, Brains, Ecstasy

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
Logan P. Smith

May, Soul, Losing

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 P. Smith

Laugh, Trying, Find

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan P. Smith

Happiness, Wine, Seems

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan P. Smith

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

Past, Behavior, Essence

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
Logan P. Smith

God, Both, Soon

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan P. Smith

However, Vanity, Modest

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

Good, Live, Conscience

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
Logan P. Smith

Enjoy, Sun, Heaven

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
Logan P. Smith

Rich, Drink, Stay

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

Courage, Tree, Missed

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Logan P. Smith

Talent, Mediocre, Tomb

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
Logan P. Smith

Life, Mind, Down

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
Logan P. Smith

Live, Charming, Behave

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Logan P. Smith

Generation, Writers, Readers

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Logan P. Smith

Life, Live, Self

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
Logan P. Smith

Matter, Income, Entirely

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: 1865

Died: 1946

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