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

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

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.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.