Thomas Lansing Masson Quotes

Thomas Lansing Masson was an American anthropologist, editor and author.

✵ 1866 – 1934
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Famous Thomas Lansing Masson Quotes

““Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people.”

Thomas L. Masson, The Book of Today, (1923), as cited in: Clifton Fadiman (1955) The American treasury, 1455-1955. p. 791.

“Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.”

Tom Masson in: The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. 61 (1901). p. 319.

“Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college”

Source: Arbutus Yearbook, Indiana University., 1912, p. 255.

“The love game is never called off on account of darkness.”

Source: Arbutus Yearbook, Indiana University., 1912, p. 249; Quoted in: Ralph Louis Woods (1967) The modern handbook of humor. p. 277.

“No brain is stronger than its weakest think.”

Thomas L. Masson, Laughs (1926), p. 167.

“Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional record.”

Thomas Lansing Masson (1922) Our American Humorists. p. ix ; Quoted in: Today's Health, (1957), p. 52.

“If you want to be a flaming youth, you must have money to burn.”

Thomas Lansing Masson (1927) Tom Masson's Book of Wit & Humor. p. 1.

“Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can complain that it doesn't hold water.”

Thomas Lansing Masson (1927) Tom Masson's Book of Wit & Humor. p. 1.

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