Adam Katz Quotes

What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can`t hear what they say?

Don`t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

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

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?