George Ade Quotes

   1866 - 1944

US humorist and dramatist.

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

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"Whom are you?" he said, for he had been to night school.

George Ade
— Bang! Bang! (1928)

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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment.

George Ade
— Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1928

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She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.

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— Fables

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A Piker always has his entire Stock of Goods in the Show Window.

George Ade
— The Fable of the Wise Piker Who Had the Kind of Talk That Went

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Moral: In uplifting, get underneath.

George Ade
— The Fable of the Good Fairy with the Lorgnette, and why She Got it Good

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Moral: It all depends.

George Ade
— The Fable of the Parents who Tinkered with the Offspring

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Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.

George Ade
— The Fable of the Caddy who Hurt His Head While Thinking

Tags: Moral, try, Account, Anything

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MORAL: If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

George Ade
— The Fable of the General Manager of the Love Affair Who Demanded a Furlough, Forty Modern Fables (1901)

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MORAL: When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.

George Ade
— The Through Train, Knocking the Neighbors (1912)

Tags: MORAL, When, Wealth, walks, Door, Press, Agent, Window

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