Occupation: Journalist Birth: September 12, 1880 Death: January 29, 1956
The best client is a scared millionaire..
Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging..
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, ….
There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers..
It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs..
Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives..
It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of w….
Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again..
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man..
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula..
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind..
At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the….
I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter..
Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous….
A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, th….
The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring..
New York: A third-rate Babylon..
America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously..
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral..
Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone..