"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."

"Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women."

"Fashion changes, style remains."

"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak."

"#3547. A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature."

"It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach."

"Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river."

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions."

"The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done."

"You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time."

"[Drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance."