Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it’s usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs? – Christopher Morley, Contribution to a Contribution

It’s frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions. – Author Unknown

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they’ll stop making it tomorrow; if it’s all three, they stopped making it yesterday. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? – François VI de la Rochefoucault