The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
I'd learned my lesson.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.