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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.  
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.  
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills the...  
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running ...  
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least wh...  
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the m...  
Discussion in America means dissent.  
Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.  
From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. "After dinner, the me...  
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.  
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible susp...  
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.  
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messa...  
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get s...  
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hou...  
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there w...  
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get t...  
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I hav...  
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.  
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.  
It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman...  
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'l...  
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind:...  
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything...  
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awar...  
Love is what you've been through with somebody.   Love
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch u...  
My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that th...  
My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that ...  
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have...  
No other editor has ever been lost and saved so often in the course of...  
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.  
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a ...   Age
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.  
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.  
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully wi...  
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it ha...  
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the ...  
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important...  
The chill Miss Trent has her men frustrated to a point at which a mort...  
The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to ...  
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the worl...  
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glar...  
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.  
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died...  
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are o...  
We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.  
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?  
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?  
With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the s...  
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.  
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.  
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward...