`A', whispered C, `I think I'm going fast.' `How fast do you think you'll go, old man?' murmured A. `I don't know,' said C, `but I'm going at any rate.' |
A 'Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty. |
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. |
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something |
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. |
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. |
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. |
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't |
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. |
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. |
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. |
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. |
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. |
I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so |
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it. |