The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.