Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.