Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Arthur Baer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Arthur Baer.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Arthur "Bugs" Baer was 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.

American - Journalist | January 9, 1886 - May 17, 1969

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His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.

Arthur Baer

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Arthur Baer

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Arthur Baer

She's generous to a fault - if it's her own.

Arthur Baer

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

Arthur Baer

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

Arthur Baer

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Arthur Baer

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Arthur Baer

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

Arthur Baer

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Arthur Baer

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

Arthur Baer

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Arthur Baer

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

Arthur Baer

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

Arthur Baer

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

Arthur Baer

An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.

Arthur Baer

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.

Arthur Baer

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.

Arthur Baer