Famous Quotes / George Jean Nathan
19 Quotations by George Jean Nathan
- 1. A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome ob ...

- 2. An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

- 3. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

- 4. Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

- 5. Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

- 6. I drink to make other people seem more interesting.

- 7. I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fa ...

- 8. I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

- 9. Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

- 10. Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

- 11. Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he shou ...

- 12. No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

- 13. No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

- 14. Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

- 15. Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

- 16. Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of ...

- 17. The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

- 18. The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

- 19. To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
