Famous Quotes / John Ciardi
14 Quotations by John Ciardi
- 1. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
- 2. A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
- 3. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
- 4. Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his ...
- 5. Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
- 6. It's not a how-to-do-it school but more nearly a confessional in which people who have spent their l ...
- 7. Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-age ...
- 8. Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav ...
- 9. Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
- 10. The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
- 11. There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
- 12. Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
- 13. You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
- 14. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.