If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.