Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.