When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

Golf is the Great Mystery.