The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy. Louis Kronenberger More Quotes by Louis Kronenberger More Quotes From Louis Kronenberger We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about. Louis Kronenberger failure cost thinking The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry. Louis Kronenberger adventurous ambition air We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. Louis Kronenberger law might men Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all. Louis Kronenberger culture people needs In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires. Louis Kronenberger grief dark night The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination. Louis Kronenberger our destination trouble age Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. Louis Kronenberger us others nothing vanity In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought. Louis Kronenberger deep lie tears art
