An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.