Jack London Quotes

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.