Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.