RING LARDNER

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

Shut up,' he explained.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

How can you write if you can't cry?

I could answer that the way you want, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

I could answer that the way you want, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

Shut up,' he explained.

How can you write if you can't cry?

Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like them only at sweet sixteen. Some like them dark,some like them light. Some like them in the park,late at night. Some like them fickle,some like them true, But the time I like them is when they're like you