A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing