The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing mise…

- Edgar Wilson Nye

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

- Edgar Wilson Nye

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

- Edgar Wilson Nye

Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we k…

- Edgar Wilson Nye

We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

- Edgar Wilson Nye

I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during …

- Edgar Wilson Nye

Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.

- Edgar Wilson Nye

Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new …

- Edgar Wilson Nye

Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should guard against …

- Edgar Wilson Nye