A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

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

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?