Great Throughts Treasury

"We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born."

"There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them."

"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on."

"You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it."