Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.
If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer’s expense.
Puccini – silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.
No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.
The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.
A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.
I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.
The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob.
The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.
Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.
The only time you have a free press is when you own one.
Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.