Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.