Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get...

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get...

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them...

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them...

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's...

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's...

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to...

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to...

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week...

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week...

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage...

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage...

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they...

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they...

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors....

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors....

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon...

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon...

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an...

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an...

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one-off, and it was so successful she turned...

Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one-off, and it was so successful she turned...

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I...

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I...

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.