Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Clarence Day (American Author, Humorist)

Clarence Day (1874–1935,) fully Clarence Shepard Day Jr., was an American writer and humorist whose greatest popular success was his autobiographical Life with Father.

Born the son of a successful Wall Street stockbroker in New York City, Day retired from his father’s firm at 29 because of crippling arthritis. After that, he earned his living by publishing essays and drawings in magazines.

Day’s first book, This Simian World (1920,) was a collection of humorous essays and illustrations. This was followed by The Crow’s Nest (1921) and Thoughts Without Words (1928.) He is best known for his light, satirical sketches recalling his grumpy, opinionated father and an affectionate mother, included in collections such as Life with Father (1935) and Life with Mother (1937.)

Life with Father was dramatized by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse in 1939 and had a decade of success on the American stage; it was adapted into a popular 1947 film by Michael Curtiz.

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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Clarence Day

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era of darkness new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.
Clarence Day
Topics: Books, Reading

Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly, “Is this all they’ve done to it?” and bursts into tears.
Clarence Day
Topics: Children

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.
Clarence Day
Topics: Animals

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Clarence Day
Topics: Curiosity

You can’t sweep other people off their feet, if you can’t be swept off your own.
Clarence Day

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid in full.
Clarence Day
Topics: Mistakes

Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day
Topics: Experience, Information

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence Day
Topics: Nature

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.
Clarence Day
Topics: Life, Acceptance

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