Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.