"We must be contented to amuse, when..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.”

“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.”

“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”

“Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.”

“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”

“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”

“I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.”

“The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.”

“If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.”