Clarence Shepherd Day, ps. B. H. Arkwright – amerykański pisarz.
Po ukończeniu studiów na Uniwersytecie Yale’a pracował w firmie maklerskiej ojca na Wall Street. W 1898 zaciągnął się do marynarki wojennej, ale w wyniku postępującego artretyzmu musiał zrezygnować z tego zajęcia; do końca życia cierpiał z powodu bólu stawów.
Najbardziej znanym dziełem Daya jest autobiograficzna powieść Life with Father , która w humorystyczny sposób opisuję życie jego rodziny, skupionej wokół dominującego ojca. Na podstawie książek Life with Father, God and my Father i Life with Mother powstała sztuka wyreżyserowana przez Howarda Lindsaya i Russell Crouse
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„Informacja znaczy bardzo niewiele, jeśli nie idzie w parze z doświadczeniem.”
Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. (ang.)
Źródło: The Crow’s Nest, Read Books, 2010, s. 4.
""Annual Report of the League for Improving the Lives of the Rich" in The Crow's Nest (1921)
Kontekst: The rich are not really a bad lot. We must not judge by appearances. If it weren't for their money they would be indistinguishable from the rest of us. But money brings out their weaknesses, naturally. Would it not bring out ours? A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health, it limits one's chance of indulging in nice simple pleasures, and in many cases it lowers the whole moral tone. The rich admit this — of each other; but what can they do? Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more.
This may seem incomprehensible to those who have never suffered from affluence, and yet they would feel the same way, in a millionaire's place. A man begins by thinking that he can have money without being its victim. He will admit that other men addicted to wealth find it hard to be moderate, but he always is convinced that he is different and has more self-control. But the growth of an appetite is determined by nature, not men, and this is as true of getting money as of anything else. As soon as a man is used to a certain amount, no matter how large, his ideas of what is suitable expand. That is the way men are made.
""Annual Report of the League for Improving the Lives of the Rich" in The Crow's Nest (1921)
Kontekst: The rich are not really a bad lot. We must not judge by appearances. If it weren't for their money they would be indistinguishable from the rest of us. But money brings out their weaknesses, naturally. Would it not bring out ours? A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health, it limits one's chance of indulging in nice simple pleasures, and in many cases it lowers the whole moral tone. The rich admit this — of each other; but what can they do? Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more.
This may seem incomprehensible to those who have never suffered from affluence, and yet they would feel the same way, in a millionaire's place. A man begins by thinking that he can have money without being its victim. He will admit that other men addicted to wealth find it hard to be moderate, but he always is convinced that he is different and has more self-control. But the growth of an appetite is determined by nature, not men, and this is as true of getting money as of anything else. As soon as a man is used to a certain amount, no matter how large, his ideas of what is suitable expand. That is the way men are made.
“We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.”
Alexander Hamilton, as quoted in The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern (1958)
Misattributed
“Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.”
As quoted in The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) edited by Rhoda Thomas Tripp
The Story of the Yale University Press Told by a Friend (1920), pp. 7–8.