The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.

After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.

Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah