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

In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket.

If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

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

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.

Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined.