Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.