Memorable Quotations: American Humorists and Wits

This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of famous American humorists and wits: Jane Ace, Franklin Pierce Adams, George Ade, Nelson Algren, Fred Allen, Minna Antrim, Tallulah Bankhead, Natalie Clifford Barney, Bernard Baruch, Robert Benchley, Ambrose Bierce, Erma Bombeck, Heywood Broun, Lenny Bruce, Art Buchwald, William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Raymond Chandler, Frank Moore Colby, e. e. cummings, Edward Dahlberg, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Gallico, Paul Goodman, Ruth Gordon, Kin Hubbard, Robert G. Ingersoll, Washington Irving, Alice James, John F. Kennedy, Joseph Wood Krutch, Oscar Levant, Abraham Lincoln, Walter Lippmann, Anita Loos, Clare Boothe Luce, Archibald MacLeish, Don Marquis, Groucho Marx, Mary McCarthy, H. L. Mencken, Wilson Mizner, Marilyn Monroe, Christopher Morley, Ogden Nash, George Jean Nathan, O. Henry, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Will Rogers, Helen Rowland, Carl Sandburg, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Logan Pearsall Smith, John Steinbeck, Adlai Stevenson, Booth Tarkington, James Thurber, Lionel Trilling, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, Orson Welles, Mae West, and E. B. White.