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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.