Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.