My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.