--- title: "Ring Lardner Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "Ring Lardner offers wry, cynical takes on writing, career and aging that will make you smile and sigh. Read all 16 quotes by Ring Lardner on QuotesBy.net." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## Ring Lardner quotes 1. > The whole world is about three drinks behind. [Permalink to quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/Ring-Lardner/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 2. > A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. [Permalink to quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/Ring-Lardner/2/ "Permalink to quote 2") 3. > This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth. [Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Ring-Lardner/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") 4. > There isn't anything on earth as depressing as an old sportswriter. [Permalink to quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/Ring-Lardner/4/ "Permalink to quote 4") ## Also attributed 1. > Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati. 2. > The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do. 3. > I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. 4. > They gave each other a smile with a future in it. 5. > No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done without it. 6. > He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered. 7. > How can you write if you can't cry? 8. > An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. 9. > The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. 10. > No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it. 11. > “Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.” 12. > “Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty” ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "CollectionPage", "name": "Ring Lardner Quotes", "url": "https://quotesby.net/Ring-Lardner", "about": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ring Lardner" }, "hasPart": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The whole world is about three drinks behind.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ring Lardner" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. 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