Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve