Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than thatsomeone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.

A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

I suppose that one of the psychological principles of advertising is to so hammer the name of your product into the mind of the timid buyer that when he is confronted with a brusk demand for an order he can't think of anything else to say, whether he wants it or not.

I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed to return. They say, "Please fill out and return the enclosed envelope," and the enclosed envelope is always one-quarter of an inch too small.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.