Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!