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

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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

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.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

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...

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we...

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we...

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...

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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...

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

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...

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders,...

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders,...

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....

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read...

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read...

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...

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....

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon...

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon...

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has...

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has...

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.