Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.