The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.