Occupation: Editor Birth: February 27, 1910 Death: September 28, 1993
Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable..
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educ….
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking ….
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'..
Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disint….
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy..
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones..
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewh….
How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?.
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart..
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you..
... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor..
"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "San….