Booth Tarkington Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Famous Quotes by Booth Tarkington
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“Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.”
Happiness Quotes
“Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.”
Mystics Quotes
“The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.”
Pretension Quotes
“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.”
Value Quotes
“Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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 of every natural act.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her--especially if that is what she desires.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody”
Miscellaneous 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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.”
Miscellaneous Quotes