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.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

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

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.