The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Philistine’ December 1909, p. 32 (often attributed to Frank Ward O’Malley)
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the
chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
‘The Roycroft Dictionary’ (1914) p. 46
8.147 Frank McKinney (‘Kin’) Hubbard 1868-1930
Classic music is th’kind that we keep thinkin’ll turn into a tune.
‘Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors’ (1923)
It’s no disgrace t’be poor, but it might as well be.
‘Short Furrows’ (1911) p. 42
8.148 L. Ron Hubbard 1911-86
If you really want to make a million...the quickest way is to start your own religion.
Speaking to the Eastern Science Fiction Association at Newark, New Jersey, in 1947, in B. Corydon and L.
Ron Hubbard Jr. ‘L. Ron Hubbard’ (1987) ch. 3
8.149 Howard Hughes Jr. 1905-76
That man’s ears make him look like a taxi-cab with both doors open.
Describing Clark Gable, in Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg ‘Celluloid Muse’ (1969) p. 156
8.150 Jimmy Hughes and Frank Lake
Bless ’em all! Bless ’em all!
The long and the short and the tall.
‘Bless ‘Em All’ (1940 song)
8.151 Langston Hughes 1902-67
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes.
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow
I’ll sit at the table
When company comes
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
‘Eat in the kitchen’
Then.