A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she was not Her. The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to "she was not she," which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink.

Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.