It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.