Login | Register Share:
  Guess quote | Authors | Isles | Contacts

Ring Lardner [1885-1933] American
Rank: 104
Comedian, Columnist


Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald, all of whom professed strong admiration for Lardner's writing.

Family, Future, Happiness, Smile



QuoteTagsRank
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. Family
101
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do. Happiness
102
They gave each other a smile with a future in it. Future, Smile
103
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
104
No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.
105
He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.
106
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
107
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
108
Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.
109

The script ran 0.001 seconds.