Arnold H. Glasow was an American businessman who published a small humour magazine for decades from Freeport, Illinois, filling it with one-line observations about work, character and human weakness. He lived to a hundred and five and gave almost no interviews. His epigrams travelled far further than his name did: many circulate today attributed to Mark Twain, Will Rogers or nobody at all, which is roughly what happens to a good aphorism with a quiet author.