Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
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.
Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
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