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

If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.

This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.