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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Discussion in America means dissent.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

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