“Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p20.
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Source: Communications of an Advertising Man (1961), p. 81
As quoted in The Business of Baseball (2003) by Albert Theodore Powers, p. 61
Dubliners (1914)
Variant: One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Source: "The Dead"
“That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.”
On the U.S. Congress, in his Autobiography (6 January 1821)
1820s
“Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's "just a job."”
Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 24.
Reported in various works including Eugene C. Gerhart, Quote It Completely!: World Reference Guide to More Than 5,500 Memorable Quotes from Law and Literature (1998), p. 113, which cites the quote to MENCKEN, HL, A New Dictionary of Quotations, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957, p. 134. However, the authorship of the quote does not lie with any work original to Mencken, and was previously reported as an anonymous quote.
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