The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

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

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

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