Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

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

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?