Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.

My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all a good player, in fact I'm perfectly rotten," is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.

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

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

Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want to drop in and chat, and therefore last longer.

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.