A good writer isnot, per se, a good bookcritic.No more so than a good drunk is automaticallya good bartender.

-Bishop,Jim
  In the NewYork Journal- American, 26 Nov.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

-Marquis, Don(ald Robert Perry)
Quoted in E  Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.