Alan Ladwig Quotes

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

If your parents didn`t have any children, there`s a good chance that you won`t have any.

You can`t sweep other people off their feet, if you can`t be swept off your own.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

If you don`t go to other men funerals they won`t go to yours.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn`t know enough to take a vacation.

Information`s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.