On the walk, like shredded lovely flesh, were the petals of the last gallant rose.
No one, even among the Washington correspondents, seemed to know precisely how much of a part in Senator Windrip’s career was taken by his secretary, Lee Sarason. When Windrip had first seized power i...
My one ambition is to get all Americans to realize that they are, and must continue to be, the greatest Race on the face of this old Earth, and second, to realize that whatever apparent Differences th...
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labo...
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
Isn’t there perhaps something the matter with you and me? (May I join you in the honor of having something the matter?) (Yes, thanks.) No, I think it’s the town.
Is it just possible, he sighed, that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators? Possible that plain men with the humble tra...
In matrimonial geography the distance between the first mute recognition of a break and the admission thereof is as great as the distance between the first naive faith and the first doubting.
Honestly, I think that the sense of humor of the people that TALK about having a 'sense of humor' is a worse vice than drinking.
He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new day.
He had every prejudice and aspiration of every American Common Man. He believed in the desirability and therefore the sanctity of thick buckwheat cakes with adulterated maple syrup, in rubber trays fo...
Going seventy miles an hour but not going anywhere—not enough imagination to want to go anywhere! Getting their music by turning a dial. Getting their phrases from the comic strips instead of from Sha...
God, sir, men’s souls and blood are not eggshells for tyrants to break!
Except, perhaps, that he was an atheist in theology, he was a strict orthodox Christian.
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. *
Even when she was tired her dark eyes were observant. She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull,
Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics.
Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics. I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the p...
But she wasn't thinking Yes. She was thinking, Milt, what worries me now isn't how I can risk letting the 'nice people' meet you. It's how I can ever waste you on the 'nice people.
An honest propagandist for any Cause, that is, one who honestly studies and figures out the most effective way of putting over his Message, will learn fairly early that it is not fair to ordinary folk...