There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'