Edgar Wilson Nye

“I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate… and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.”

“Last fall I was so emaciated that I had to put on an overcoat to cast a shadow.”

“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”

“We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth.”

“The study of law is sublime, because it is the study of justice. It is the study of that which is not, but should be.”

“The opera is a place where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of bleeding, he sings.”

“The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”

“The man who has a good memory is seldom a good liar.”

“We can never be a nation of authors, because we are a nation of critics.”

“Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.”

“There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if you can only find it.”

“The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.”

“A great many people are thinking just now of the boy they used to be.”

“Childhood is the time when we are expected to be seen and not heard, a rule that we are often willing to reverse in later years.”

“As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man.”

“Wagner's music is better than it sounds.”