I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

I want to be all used up when I die.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat