It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.