"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
- Franklin P. Adams
"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary."
"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
"Then here's to the City of Boston The town of the cries and the groans Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns."
"While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other."
"There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle."
"Too much truth Is uncouth."