The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

A Speechmaker's Prayer: "Let each word of mine be tender and sweet, Just in case someone might make me eat it.

...men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.

They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.

Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.