Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.