Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of 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.

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

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 are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

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