When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.