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

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. We are constantly remarking on the fact that things are done well by people other than ourselves. "The Japanese are a remarkable little people," we say, as if we were doing them a favor. "He is an Arab, but you ought to hear him play the zither." Why "but"?

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

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.

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.