Quotes from the Algonquin Wits

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

--Franklin Pierce Adams


Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
--Tallulah Bankhead


Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing.
--Robert Benchley


The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
--Heywood Broun


There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.
--Edna Ferber


Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
--Dorothy Parker


You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
--James Thurber

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