Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

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.

The best bet you get is an even break.

Too much truth is uncouth.

There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.