Creative Quotations from . . .
William Lyon Phelps
(1865-1943) born on Jan 02
US "educator, journalist". "He was a Yale English professor, 1892-1933; popularized the arts through his lectures and essays."
 
   
F
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

R
"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older."
A
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
N
"A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands."
K
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; but an American cow."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R: "In "Pearls of Wisdom," ed. J. Agel and W. Glanze, 1987."
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: ""Autobiography.""
K: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."



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