 A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. |
| We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. |
| When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' |
| Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. |
| The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality. |
| Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. |
| Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. |
| The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. |
| By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing. |
| Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. |
| Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. |
| Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. |
| A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country. |
| Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. |
| Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. |
| Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. |
| I would rather start a family than finish one. |
| One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream. |
| There is nothing so habit-forming as money. |
| An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. |
