So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Discussion in America means dissent.

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.

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