Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.