My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.