Top 18 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.