The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom.

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.

Work is a form of nervousness.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.