„Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.“
Tom Masson in: The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. 61 (1901). p. 319.
Geburtstag: 1866
Todesdatum: 1934
Thomas Lansing Masson was an American anthropologist, editor and author.
„Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.“
Tom Masson in: The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. 61 (1901). p. 319.
„Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college“
Quelle: Arbutus Yearbook, Indiana University., 1912, p. 255.
„The love game is never called off on account of darkness.“
Quelle: Arbutus Yearbook, Indiana University., 1912, p. 249; Quoted in: Ralph Louis Woods (1967) The modern handbook of humor. p. 277.
„No brain is stronger than its weakest think.“
Thomas L. Masson, Laughs (1926), p. 167.
Thomas Lansing Masson (1922) Our American Humorists. p. ix ; Quoted in: Today's Health, (1957), p. 52.
„If you want to be a flaming youth, you must have money to burn.“
Thomas Lansing Masson (1927) Tom Masson's Book of Wit & Humor. p. 1.
„“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people.“
Thomas L. Masson, The Book of Today, (1923), as cited in: Clifton Fadiman (1955) The American treasury, 1455-1955. p. 791.
„Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can complain that it doesn't hold water.“
Thomas Lansing Masson (1927) Tom Masson's Book of Wit & Humor. p. 1.