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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.


There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.


Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.


The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.


For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.


Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.


I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.


There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.


We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.


You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.


Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.


I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.


Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.


At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.


Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.


In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.


After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.


Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.


Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.


A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.