In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

Quote by John Leonard

Topics: John Leonard Quotes

Television is a corporate vulgarity.

Television is a corporate vulgarity.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are...

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are...

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are...

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are...

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of...

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of...

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Television is a corporate vulgarity

Television is a corporate vulgarity

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much...

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much...

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early...

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early...

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am...

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am...

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence,...

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence,...

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles,...

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles,...

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant...

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant...

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to...

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to...

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power...

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power...