History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.