Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel. - Katharine Whitehorn

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.