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

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

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

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.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

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