[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.