There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.

I think it's become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I've heard many people, boast, "I would never have a television set in my house," well, these people are fools.

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

An oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.