Clarence Shepard Day Jr. (November 18, 1874 – December 28, 1935) was an American author and cartoonist, best known for his 1935 work Life With Father.
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.
Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.
The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
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.
If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.
The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
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.
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.
I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.
Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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 egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.