An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.