The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.

still loved but deprived of grace

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

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.