All Quotes by William Lyon Phelps
“If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.”
“Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.”
“If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.”
“The expression "as right as rain" must have been invented by an Englishman.”
“If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.”
“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.”
“If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.”