She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.