Edgar Wilson Nye famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
-- Edgar Wilson Nye

#Fun #Humility #Pride
They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
-- Edgar Wilson Nye

#Musical #Sound #Music Is
Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.
-- Edgar Wilson Nye

#Science #Space #Facts
The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.
-- Edgar Wilson Nye

#Self #Drunk #Touching
Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.
-- Edgar Wilson Nye

#Spring #Years #People
Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.
-- Edgar Wilson Nye

#Song #Spring #Sacrifice
I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.
-- Edgar Wilson Nye

#Morning #Leaving #Bed
Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication... the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train, who ought to be in the stock car.
-- Edgar Wilson Nye

#Travel #Morning #People
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
-- Edgar Wilson Nye

#Sound #Peculiar #Classical Music

Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!
It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
I heard my name." Ash's voice startles me. "You tow better not be making fun of me about this stupid bra Mama's making me wear. I've had it with the jokes. I'll break both your noses if it doesn't stop.
My dad was so much fun growing up.
It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world . They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.

Edgar Wilson Nye famous quotes

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