We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

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

But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?''Quite correct.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It is one of the chief merits of golf that non-success at the game induces a certain amount of decent humilty, which keeps a man from pluming himself too much on any petty triumphs he may achieve in other walks of life.