Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
I've had an unhappy life, thank God.
Serious journalism need not be solemn.
Americans like fat books and thin women.
Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.
There are no liberals behind steering wheels.
In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.
Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.
Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.
Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.
What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.
Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
