Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.