The Icelanders are the most intelligent race on earth, because they discovered America and never told anyone.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up

In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.