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

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

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

Life's more amusing than we thought.