It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.

Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

Sense is never common.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.