The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.