Frank Arthur Swinnerton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.
-- Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#Flower #Garden #Done
No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.
-- Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#Men #May #Circumstances
We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.
-- Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#Choices #Acquaintance #Company
The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.
-- Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#Failure #Men #Doe
To be agreeable, all that is necessary is to take an interest in other persons and in other things, to recognize that other people as a rule are much like one's self, and thankfully to admit that diversity is a glorious feature of life.
-- Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#Self #Diversity #People
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.
-- Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#Men #Wisest Man #People

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.
What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.
The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

Frank Arthur Swinnerton famous quotes

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