Owen Wister famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
-- Owen Wister

#Sweet #Plato #Alcohol
It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.
-- Owen Wister

#Men #Two #People
In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.
-- Owen Wister

#Class #Car #Railroads
An aristocrat in morals as in mind.
-- Owen Wister

#Mind #Moral
I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.
-- Owen Wister

#Soul #Damage #Truth Is
With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.
-- Owen Wister

#Gun #Always Smile #Belly
When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
-- Owen Wister

#Life #You Choose
But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.
-- Owen Wister

#Destiny #Men #Feet
I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.
-- Owen Wister

#Men #Doctors #Bishops
When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.
-- Owen Wister

#Men #Ideas #Be Kind
Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular, being as manlike as most of his sons.
-- Owen Wister

#Sex #Father #Book

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