Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Rereading, we find a new book

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it.

"Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life.

At the end of every diet the path curves back toward the trough.

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.

Magic lives in curves not angles.

Magic lives in curves not angles.

Magic lives in curves not angles.

Magic lives in curves not angles.

Magic lives in curves not angles.

Magic lives in curves not angles.

Magic lives in curves not angles.

Magic lives in curves not angles.

Magic lives in curves not angles.

Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.