"Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?"
"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same." Marie-Henri Beyle
"My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly." Chateau and Horses, Raoul Dufy
  • Alexander Woollcott (signing a first edition of his book): "Ah, what is so rare as a Woollcott first edition?"
  • Franklin P. Adams: "A Woollcott second edition."
    (11/15/1881 – 03/23/1960)
    US writer
Franklin Pierce Adams
"All that anyone needs to imitate me is two soft-boiled eggs and a bedroom voice." László Löwenstein
"Are you crazy? Don't you know there are people sleeping in Europe?"
  • Zoot Sims
    (10/25/1925 – 03/23/1985)
    US saxophonist, on a suggestion that he pour out half a Dexedrine before taking it
John Haley Sims
"What do you give a man who has everything? Penicillin."
"We must continuously discipline ourselves to remember how it felt the first moment."