Thomas Lansing Masson Quotes

• "Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Funny, Life, Being Yourself

  "American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 791, 1955.

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• Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Water, May, Prohibition

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• It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Children, Hard Life, Psychologist

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• What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Fashion, What If, Worn

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• Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Book, America, Library

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• Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Humor, Opposites, Ideas

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• You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it yourself.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Love You, Self Love, Do It Yourself

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• A mind is as strong as its weakest think.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Strong, Thinking, Mind

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• There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Lying, Men, Doe

  Thomas Lansing Masson (1929). “Ascensions”

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• Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Thinking, Long, Would Be

  Thomas Lansing Masson (1922). “Our American Humorists”

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• To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Leadership, Greatness, Solitude

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• A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Senior, Kids, College

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• Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Girl, Husband, Knows

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• No brain is stronger than its weakest think.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Thinking, Brain, Stronger

  "Laughs: A Sovereign Remedy for Boredom". Book by Thomas Lansing Masson, p. 167, 1926.

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