The Surest Way To Make A Monkey

The Surest Way To Make A Monkey Of A Man Is To Quote Him. That Remark In Itself Wouldn’t Make Any Sense If Quoted As It Stands. The Average Man Ought To Be Allowed A Quotation Of No Less Than Three Sentences, One To Make His Statement And Two To Explain What He Meant. Ralph Waldo Emerson Was About The Only One Who Could Stand Having His Utterances Broken Up Into Sentence Quotations, And Every Once In A While Even He Doesn’t Sound So Sensible In Short Snatches.

We Call Ourselves A Free Nation, And Yet We Let Ourselves Be Told What Cabs We Can And Can't Take By A Man At A Hotel Door, Simply Because He Has A Drum Major's Uniform On.

The Surest Way To Make A Monkey Of A Man Is To Quote Him.

Anyone Who Tries To Keep Track Of What Is Happening In China Is Going To End Up By Wearing All The Skin Of His Left Ear From Twirling Around On It.

Sheer Madness Is, Of Course, The Highest Possible Brow In Humor.