Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.