Oscar W. Firkins Quotes

• If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Views, Needs, May

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.45, U of Minnesota Press

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• Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Humor, Greatness, Serious

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• Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  World, Serious, Economy

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• La mente estrictamente lógica suele fallar, si no siempre, en sus valoraciones de esa cosa desafiantemente ilógica conocida como naturaleza humana.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Nature, Mind, Faults

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.202, U of Minnesota Press

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• The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Eye, Reality, Men

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• All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Peace, Men, Dinner

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.94, U of Minnesota Press

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