I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.