Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
Subject:
Health
Wealth
Mock
Source: New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
Subject:
Mock
Fool
Source: New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God
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I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Americans
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
Subject:
Life
Desperation
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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
Subject:
Death
Learning
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I hate women because they always know where things are.
Subject:
Women
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
Subject:
Humor
Source: in Edward R. Murrow television interview
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
Subject:
Mock
Source: New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Source: Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Source: New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone
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It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Source: My Life and Hard Times (1933)
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Source: New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly
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