Homely truth is unpalatable.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.