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.

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

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.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

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

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.

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