Booth Tarkington quotes

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. (Booth Tarkington)
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. View quote
Booth Tarkington
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough. View quote
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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. View quote
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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. View quote
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. View quote
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. View quote
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The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. View quote
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. View quote
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The somewhere we're goin' to, and got to go to if we don't want to get wiped out, it's somewhere everlastingly and eternally ahead! It's like to-morrow; when we get there we aren't there; we got to keep goin', and we got to everlastingly and eternally keep goin' – and goin' fast! If we don't, the Almighty hasn't got a bit o' use for us; He turns us right into dust and scattered old bones, and nothin's left of our whole country and our finest cities except some street paving and a few cellars with weeds in 'em. View quote
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