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

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

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

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