The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.