The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.