I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.