George Ade

George Ade (9 February 1866 – 16 May 1944) was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright.

Quotes

 * Early to Bed and Early to Rise is a Bad Rule for any one who wishes to become acquainted with our most Prominent and Influential People.
 * True Bills (1904).


 * "Whom are you?" he said, for he had been to night school.
 * Bang! Bang! (1928).


 * In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment.
 * Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1928.


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


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


 * A Piker always has his entire Stock of Goods in the Show Window.
 * The Fable of the Wise Piker Who Had the Kind of Talk That Went.


 * Moral: In uplifting, get underneath.
 * The Fable of the Good Fairy with the Lorgnette, and why She Got it Good.


 * Moral: It all depends.
 * The Fable of the Parents who Tinkered with the Offspring.


 * Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.
 * The Fable of the Caddy who Hurt His Head While Thinking.


 * MORAL: If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
 * The Fable of the General Manager of the Love Affair Who Demanded a Furlough, Forty Modern Fables (1901).


 * MORAL: When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.
 * The Through Train, Knocking the Neighbors (1912).