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Ring Lardner Quotes

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

Ring Lardner

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

Tags: future, smile, love, other, each

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Ring Lardner

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Tags: family, important, you, going

About Author
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries—Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him.

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.

Ring Lardner

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.

Tags: happiness, game, think, real

How can you write if you can't cry?

Ring Lardner

How can you write if you can't cry?

Tags: writing, writers

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.

Ring Lardner

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.

Tags: humor, writing

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

Ring Lardner

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

Tags: quips, comments