Wilfrid Sheed

“Fame is a form of incomprehension, perhaps the worst.”

“Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.”

“A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.”

“In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.”

“By the time you've worked your way up to be a boss, you're so damn tired you don't want to be a boss.”

“Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.”

“To be a satirist, at all events, is to be a moralist. You must have a firm sense of right and wrong.”

“A fan's love is biased, not blind.”

“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”

“The American dream is not that every man is equal, but that every man is equal to every other man.”