Fletcher Knebel Quotes
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.
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Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.
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Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
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Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.
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No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.