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.

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

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

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

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

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.