There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.