Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands. The average man ought to be allowed a quotation of no less than three sentences, one to make his statement and two to explain what he meant. Ralph Waldo Emerson was about the only one who could stand having his utterances broken up into sentence quotations, and every once in a while even he doesn’t sound so sensible in short snatches.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

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

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start.

A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.