To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

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

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.