Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.