“There is nothing so habit-forming as money.”
“Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.”
“Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.”
“I would rather start a family than finish one.”
“An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.”
“When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.”
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”
“An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.”
“Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.”
“Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.”
“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”
“Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.”
“Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.”
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?”
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
“prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into”
“I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.”
“Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.”
“Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.”
“Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint”
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
“In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.”
“Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.”
“Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”
“Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”
“I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.”
“If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
“We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.”