Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.

Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.

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

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

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

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