At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's. - Alexander Woollcott

Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?"
"Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it."

Alexander Woollcott: What could be rarer than a Woollcott First Edition?
Franklin Pierce Adams: A Woollcott second edition.

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.