Rome wasn't built in A.D.

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.