Quotes from George Ade

R-E-M-O-R-S-E! Those dry Martinis did the work for me; Last night at twelve I felt intense, Today I feel like thirty cents. My eyes are bleared, my coopers hot, I'll try to eat, but I cannot. It is no time for mirth and laughter, The cold, gray dawn the morning after.

One man's poison ivy,is another man's spinach.

Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.

Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

Give the people what they think they want.

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.

In uplifting, get underneath.

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.

Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.