The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.

[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.

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

The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.

New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.