American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.

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

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

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.

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

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.