Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.