The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.