It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.

Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

Mark Twain said (particularly about Pink Marsh): "I have been reading him again, and my admiration overflows all limits. ... How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand."

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.