An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

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

Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.