The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done.

A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog's tail off. The vet asked why. Well, my mother in law is visiting next month and I want to eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome.