Be obscure clearly.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.
Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.
Humour plays close to the big hot fire which is the truth and the reader feels the heat.
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer he approaches lucid ground warily like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a litt...
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.