The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.