The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy

There have been too many books in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt....

Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.

For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.

Censor: A self-appointed snoop hound who sticks his nose in other people’s business

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you

Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman’s name out of a satire, then...

The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?

A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.

What rotten luck. Obviously, another book at this time about exactly the same subject would be a sad anticlimax!