There is nothing more likely to start disagreement between people or countries than an agreement.

Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.'

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution than we used to be.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of a self-made man.

Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage, if anything is.