Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.