Clarence Day Quotes

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Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
— Clarence Day
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
— Clarence Day

experience

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
— Clarence Day

enthusiasm

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.
— Clarence Day This Simian World

mistakes

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
— Clarence Day
Dogs have more love than integrity.  They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
— Clarence Day This Simian World

dogs

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
— Clarence Day

nature

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of facts, far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
— Clarence Day This Simian World

curiosity

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.
— Clarence Day This Simian World

animals