Samuel Hoffenstein

“Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma is to toss a coin.”

“Babies are bits of star-dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth for she has held a star.”

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”

“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”

“Wherever I go, I go too, and spoil everything.”

“Your little child is your only true democrat.”

“You are a poem I can't read, / A book in a tongue I don't know.”

“Love is a secret told to only two.”

“You buy a house, but you build a home.”

“Your voice is music from a farther room.”

“Somewhere a star is weeping, and in the dark, a flower is shedding its tears.”