Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgement of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah