A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.
Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
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