A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.

In a way, we’re all addicts by nature.

You'd be surprised what I can do with a butter knife.

If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

The difference between a hero and an also-ran is the guy who hangs on for one last gasp.

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.

Television... is not a substitute for print.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.