By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.