Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever depths they were once able to plumb.

Most general statements are false, including this one.

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations Various signs in Poland: Right turn toward immediate outside. Go soothingly in the snow, as there lurk the ski demons. Five o'clock tea at all hours. In a men's washroom in Sidney:

Those who do things in a noble spirit of self-sacrifice are to be avoided at all costs.

I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a result of controlled substances being in widespread use. Back then, there were no restrictions, in terms of talent, on who could make

Let me take you a button-hole lower.

Some performers on television appear to be horrible people, but when you finally get to know them in person, they turn out to be even worse.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.

Piece of cake!

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

You tread upon my patience.

Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser. But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.

Look ere ye leap.

If I had a plantation in Georgia and a home in Hell, I'd sell the plantation and go home.

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

I understand why you're confused. You're thinking too much.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.