The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.

I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.