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(1925--), New York Times (8 June 1965)

In June the air is full of advice. People are graduating and getting married and setting out on vacations, and it is the fate of these people to be battered with advice until they scream for mercy.

(1925--), New York Times, 1978

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they do it.

(1925--), Poor Russell's Almanac, 1972

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

(1906—1989), Irish playwright

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness.

Habitual teetotalers. There should be asylums for such people. But they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they came out.

How holy people look when they are seasick!

(1835—1902)

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

(1835—1902)

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

(1835—1902)

Not only is there a [skeleton in every closet] but there is a [screw loose] in every skeleton.