I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.