Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.