The cart has no place where a fifth wheel could be used.

There are people who find it odd to eat four or five Chinese meals in a row; in China, I often remind them, there are a billion or so people who find nothing odd about it.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things than someone who hasn't.

To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.

Persistence in one opinion has never been considered a merit in political leaders.

"Elves and Dragons!" I says to him. "Cabbages and potatoes are better for you and me."

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.