Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.

A good folly is worth what you pay for it.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

Opportunity knocks once at every mans door and then keeps on knocking.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic in the country it is a form of entertainment.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

R-E-M-O-R-S-E! Those dry martinis did the work for me; Last night at twelve I felt immense, Today I feel like thirty cents.

Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.

One man’s poison ivy is another man’s spinach.

Do unto yourself as your Neighbours do unto Themselves and look Pleasant.

Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Literature is the immortality of speech.