Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.