It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not known, however, why this decision has not been carried out.

The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.