Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

At best, IQ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success, which leaves 80 percent to other forces.

The Christian life isn’t a playground but a battlefield.

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

We're in a different time right now, and I think we're ready to see a different type of female hero.

Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.

Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of the four words inscribed above the entrance of the Supreme Court building: Equal justice under law?

You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!

Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.