A Half Truth, Like Half A Brick,

The Compleat Angler Is Acknowledged To Be One Of The World's Books. Only The Trouble Is That The World Doesn't Read Its Books, It Borrows A Detective Story Instead.

I Owe A Lot To My Teachers And Mean To Pay Them Back Some Day.

Any Man Will Admit If Need Be That His Sight Is Not Good, Or That He Cannot Swim Or Shoots Badly With A Rifle, But To Touch Upon His Sense Of Humour Is To Give Him Mortal Affront.

The Classics Are Only Primitive Literature. They Belong To The Same Class As Primitive Machinery And Primitive Music And Primitive Medicine.

The Attempt To Make The Consumption Of Beer Criminal Is As Silly And As Futile As If You Passed A Law To Send A Man To Jail For Eating Cucumber Salad.