Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes & Sayings

“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”

“Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.”

“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”

“The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.”

“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.”

“If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.”

“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.”

“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”

“It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.”

“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”