Most people need a ladder and a telescope to make sense of two plus two. That's why it's usually more trouble than it's worth to explain yourself.
- from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
Most people need a ladder and a telescope to make sense of two plus two. That's why it's usually more trouble than it's worth to explain yourself.
- from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
Well, that's life in a nutshell, ain't it. Lovin' to go to one place and havin' to go to another.
- from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
Sometimes, to make an impression on a child, one must leave an impression on a child.
- from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
No know-it-all gets under your skin like a young know-it-all.
- from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
Time is that which God uses to separate the idle from the industrious. For time is a mountain and upon seeing its steep incline, the idle will lie down among the lilies of the field and hope that someone passes by with a pitcher of lemonade.
- from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
Traveling salesmen are not simply hardworking men, they are the foot soldiers of capitalism!
- from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles