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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.
This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you.