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(1866—1946), "America"

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

(1941--)

British authoractor

You come out of a woman and you spend the rest of your life trying to get back inside.

You come out of a woman and you spend the rest of your life trying to get back inside.

(1915--)

U.S. novelist

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Men are like computers. I don't understand them. I just use them for my amusement.

Men are like computers: I don't understand them, I just use them for my amusement.

Half a loaf is better than no free time at all.

(1894—1971) on plotting

Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl.

(1881—1946), mayor of New York

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book.

(1935--)

U.S. comedy writerdirector

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.