Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.

Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

We all know that scientific words need an obscure classical origin to make them sound impressvie to those who wouldn't know an idiopathic craniofacial erythema if it hit them in the face.

It is much harder than you might think to show people your bottom.

A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.

The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the can-can behind your back. The unknown unknowns.

I had to go outside. I had to let the element of chance in.

I am not alone even in solitude.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

No situation is beyond God’s control. Over my wife’s desk are these words: “Fear not the future

I'm on the last great journey here--and people ant me to tell them what to pack.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

I wanted Puma to regain strength with the existing logo rather than try to get rid of the past.

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

Without action, the world would still be an idea.

Don't come to church for an emotional experience. Come to church for the truth.

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.