Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and theatre drama. Read full biography of Ring Lardner →
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
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... →
He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.
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.
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and theatre drama.