There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

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

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.

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

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

In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them