Mr. Jones was known nationally during the 1940s and 50s for his column “Put it this Way” in the Saturday Evening Post. “Put it this Way” set a record as the longest continuously published feature in the Saturday Evening Post.

He was an accomplished “paragrapher” – a writer who condenses humorous or thought provoking ideas into paragraph form. His quips and quotes were published (often anonymously) in numerous publications, including Reader’s Digest, the Wall Street Journal, Changing Times and Quote magazine.

Born in Saratoga, NY, he moved to Philadelphia, PA at an early age. He graduated from Haverford College in 1933 with a Bachelor of Science degree.

He began his writing career at the Philadelphia Record in 1934 as a police reporter and rose through the ranks working as a general assignment reporter, rewrite man and features writer. He was on the editorial board when the paper ceased publication in 1946. From 1941 through 1946, he was also a Philadelphia correspondent for the now defunct New York newspaper PM.

In 1947, he joined Gray and Rogers Advertising Agency, one of Philadelphia’s largest advertising and public relations firms as director of publicity and became a partner in 1954. He created ad programs for major clients and headed the 40-man public relations staff until he sold his interest in the firm and retired in 1960 to work full-time as a humor writer.

Mr. Jones continued his freelance writing, producing more than 35,000 paragraphs, epigrams, anecdotes, gag lines and definitions in the years before his death.

He was a member of The Committee of 70, Philadelphia Public Relations Association and the Pen and Pencil Club.

1. Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

2. Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.

3. Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.

4. Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

5. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

6. One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.

7. Sex is a two-way treat.

8. The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

9. What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely.

10. When you get something for nothing, you just haven’t been billed for it yet.

11. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

1. The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

Sayings under the name Francois de La Rochefoucauld

1. A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

2. A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

3. As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

4. Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

5. If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

6. Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

7. The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the “bobby soxers.” His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (for his performance in From Here to Eternity).

He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin’ Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice ‘n’ Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records (finding success with albums such as Ring-A-Ding-Ding, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with “Strangers in the Night” and “My Way”.

With sales of his music dwindling and after appearing in several poorly received films, Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971. Two years later, however, he came out of retirement and in 1973 recorded several albums, scored a Top 40 hit with “(Theme From) New York, New York” in 1980, and toured both within the United States and internationally, using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, until a short time before his death in 1998.

1. Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

2. I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn’t be a staring contest.

3. I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

4. I’m not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I’m not looking for the secret to life… I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

5. People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.

6. Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing – if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

Fly Me to the Moon

New York, New York

My Way

1. All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

2. Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

3. Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

4. Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

5. Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

6. Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

7. Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

8. It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

9. It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

10. The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

11. What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

12. Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

13. Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

14. Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

15. The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing.

Born in Buddington, Sussex, Bourdillon was educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He acted as tutor to the sons of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. Later he lived in Eastbourne, and near Midhurst, Sussex.

He is known mostly for his poetry, and in particular the single short poem “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes“. He in fact had many collections published, including Among The Flowers, And Other Poems (1878), Minuscula: lyrics of nature, art and love (1897, siftings of three smaller volumes of verse published anonymously at Oxford in 1891, 1892, and 1894), Gerard and Isabel: a Romance in Form of Cantefable (1921), and also Chryseis, and Preludes and Romances (1908).

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying of the sun.

1. I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

2. Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

3. Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.

4. Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.