As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Everything human is pathetic

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

In love, you pay as you leave.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.