Top 30 Carew Papritz Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy.”

— Carew Papritz

2. “Just because you’re breathing, doesn’t mean you’re alive.”

— Carew Papritz

3. “Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots.”

— Carew Papritz

4. “When do you become a man? Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.”

— Carew Papritz

5. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.”

— Carew Papritz

6. “Kids are kids and not little adults. They’re watching and listening to you all the time. They’re figuring out the game plan but still don’t know all the rules. Talk straight to them and they’ll respect you for it.”

— Carew Papritz

7. “Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don’t care. Old is when you don’t want to dance anymore. Old is when you don’t want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them.”

— Carew Papritz

8. “Living isn’t always red bows and birthday balloons.”

— Carew Papritz

9. “Enjoy what you are learning and doing. This is one of the hardest concepts in the entire world to understand. Harder yet to put into practice.”

— Carew Papritz

10. “Remember, Little Ones, everything is not important all the time. Only living is important all the time. Not things. Not money. Not more things and more endless money. Spend well the quality of your time. And yes, be greedy with your hours. If only to then give those hours away as the most precious gifts you have to offer to yourself, your family, and your friends. And yes, to my Little Ones.” –From The Legacy Letters–“The Everything and Nothing of Money.”

— Carew Papritz

11. “Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss – taunting, deep, and luscious.”

— Carew Papritz

12. “Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss – taunting, deep, and luscious. The sun. The heat. The thousand echoes of a timelessness before time, when every day seems longer than the next and no day seems likely to ever truly end. Summer.”

— Carew Papritz

13. “Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take.”

— Carew Papritz

14. “A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.”

— Carew Papritz

15. “And I don’t care what age you are, kissing in the rain is the best.”

— Carew Papritz

16. “Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And all of us should wish for that.”

— Carew Papritz

17. “Love your kids and just be there for them. You don’t have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that’s too much. All they want is to be assured that there’s a home fire cooking, that there are two foremen and a rulebook, and that there’s someone to tuck them in at night.”

— Carew Papritz

18. “I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.”

— Carew Papritz

19. “You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife.”

— Carew Papritz

20. “I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.”

— Carew Papritz

21. “Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.”

— Carew Papritz

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22. “Rain with no shoes is just as much fun as rain with big rubber galoshes.”

— Carew Papritz

23. “Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility-but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings.”

— Carew Papritz

24. “I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.”

— Carew Papritz

25. “Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.”

— Carew Papritz

26. “Rain with an umbrella while holding hands with your lover is damned sure nice.”

— Carew Papritz

27. “Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance.”

— Carew Papritz

28. “I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.”

— Carew Papritz

29. “As I see it, you GET married – but you MAKE a marriage.”

— Carew Papritz

30. “Thanksgiving – fall’s finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation.”

— Carew Papritz

31. “Don’t have kids until you’re ready. And when you do have them, have them all the way. They aren’t like some Cadillac that you can turn back into the dealership after three years.”

— Carew Papritz

32. “Sometimes I travel just to be overwhelmed – for it’s good every now and then to be overwhelmed.”

— Carew Papritz

33. “Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with.”

— Carew Papritz

34. “Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.”

— Carew Papritz