The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.