“I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.”
George Jean Nathan“An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.”
George Jean Nathan“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
George Jean Nathan“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.”
George Jean Nathan“Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.”
George Jean Nathan“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.”
George Jean Nathan“There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty like a great ship its flags flying full of holes.”
George Jean Nathan