You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.

One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.