Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

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.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.