Booth Tarkington Quotes
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.
There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!
Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.
Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.
This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.
Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger.
