I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things and I have succeeded fairly well.

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.

The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

You can love someone you mistrust.

Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.

The thing about goalscorers is that they score goals.

On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.