Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair-trigger balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Discussion in America means dissent.

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.

History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

The human being says that the beast in him has been aroused, when what he actually means is that the human being in him has been aroused.