The reasons that each of these countries has had to renege on its financial committments were all somewhat different: Argentina because of a war, Poland because of its vast misguided overinvestment in heavy industry, Honduras because the coffee price

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read.

Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *___and* fresher

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit at a typewriter and open a vein.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?

VII. Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot. This trompe l'oeil inconsistency has baffled generations, but at least it is known that whoever paints an entrance on a wall's surface to