Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.