It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.