The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.