When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
I would rather start a family than finish one.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
