Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat… — Louis Kronenberger Allegiance Copy Share Image
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. — Louis Kronenberger Achievement Copy Share Image
Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both… — Louis Kronenberger Art Copy Share Image
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to… — Louis Kronenberger Advertising Copy Share Image
For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. — Louis Kronenberger Age Copy Share Image
Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep,… — Louis Kronenberger Competition Copy Share Image
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person… — Louis Kronenberger Attention Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first… — Louis Kronenberger Country Copy Share Image
Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one… — Louis Kronenberger Close friends Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very… — Louis Kronenberger Adversity Copy Share Image
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark… — Louis Kronenberger Ego Copy Share Image
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic… — Louis Kronenberger Adventurous Copy Share Image
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it… — Louis Kronenberger Age Copy Share Image
Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated… — Louis Kronenberger Class Copy Share Image
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost… — Louis Kronenberger American way Copy Share Image
London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants.… — Louis Kronenberger Cities Copy Share Image
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to… — Louis Kronenberger Englishman Copy Share Image
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep. — Louis Kronenberger Beauty Copy Share Image
In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they… — Louis Kronenberger Company Copy Share Image
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or… — Louis Kronenberger Age Copy Share Image
On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole… — Louis Kronenberger Fame Copy Share Image
