DOUG LARSON QUOTES

American columnist & editor (1926- )

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men

Tags: contentment


Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Business Quotations

Tags: computers


Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

DOUG LARSON

Woman's Day Magazine, Apr. 1, 2007

Tags: spring


If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Words from the Wise

Tags: language


Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Meditations for Living in Balance

Tags: wisdom


The trouble with the last snowfall of the season is that you can't be sure.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, The Reader's Digest, 1998


Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Great Funny Quotes

Tags: duty


A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Quotable Quotes

Tags: friends


An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Quotable Quotes

Tags: pessimism


Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Quotable Quotes: Wit and Wisdom from the Greatest Minds of Our Time

Tags: children


A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Look at the Bees

Tags: conscience


Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have none.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Asterisk: The Future of Telephony

Tags: paradise


If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Quotable Quotes

Tags: fishing


Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Raising Kids That Succeed

Tags: teenagers


The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, The Ship of Thought

Tags: experience


The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings others.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Quotable Quotes

Tags: faults


There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, The Reader's Digest, 1983


The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Laugh Off: The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life and the Pros

Tags: blame


A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations


For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored