If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls.

But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

You won't find one fish in a million that has enough sense to come in when it rains.