Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.