If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.

Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures which he dispenses.

Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. Most times their ship doesn't travel by water anyway.

I can resist anything except temptation.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

I have been worth the whistle. O Goneril, You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

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A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

women: can't live with them, can't kill them.

The forehead is the gate of the mind.

Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics German, the cooks are French, the lovers Italian, and all is organize by the Swiss.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.