She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

You haven't lived until you died in New York.