Arthur Baer
Arthur Baer
Arthur "Bugs" Baerwas an American journalist and humorist. Baer was prominent in the New York City journalism and entertainment scene for many years and worked as a sports journalist and cartoonist. Called by the New York Times "one of the country's best known humorists", he wrote the humor column "One Word Led to Another" for the King Features Syndicate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth9 January 1886
CountryUnited States of America
thumbs littles faces
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
silence thumbs demand
If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
law would-be human-nature
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
drinking liquor illegal
Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.
honesty heart player
About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.
men rope helpful
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
past lambs lefties
Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
history imagination
[History is] petrified imagination.
country men lunch
You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.
sleep insomnia office
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
law justice impossible
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
blood library pressure
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
your-smile neighbors-friends neighbors-and-friends
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
source plumber pipe
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.