My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.