A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

All of us should treasure his Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: "Just lie down on the floor and keep calm

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

The ripest fruit falls first.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

There is no sin but ignorance.