Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

- Booth Tarkington

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

- Booth Tarkington

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

- Booth Tarkington

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

- Booth Tarkington

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

- Booth Tarkington

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

- Booth Tarkington

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

- Booth Tarkington