What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro?

Flowers are happy things.