Clarence Day Quotes

Father declared he was going to buy a new plot in the cemetery, a plot all for himself. ‘And I’ll buy one on a corner,’ he added triumphantly, ‘where I can get out.’

‘If you don’t go to other men’s funerals,’ he told Father stiffly, ‘they won’t go to yours.’

Imagine the Lord talking French! Aside from a few odd words in Hebrew, I took it for granted that God had never spoken anything but the most dignified English.

I meant to be prompt, but it never occurred to me that I had better try to be early.

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.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.