"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

I always advise people never to give advice.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

For a thinking man, the main thing is to develop that person within

it is strangehowsisterscanbesaviorsorstrangers& sometimesa bit of both.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.

I try to live in the moment, but by the time I get there it's too late.

I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet and I can take time to think and dream about new projects and possibilities.

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

Be true to yourself and you will never fail.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.