Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is? A sport!
Man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely.
Man is an unoriginal animal.
Man is always in danger – from traffic, from germs, from a hundred-and-one things. As well be killed one way as another. The moment you begin being careful of yourself – adopting as your motto ‘Safety First’ – you might as well be dead.
Man is a vain animal.
Luck, they say, goes in cycles.
Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.
Love’s a desperate and twisting business. It can turn a worm into a fine fellow – and it can bring a decent, straight man down to the dregs!
Love can make devils of men as well as angels.
Love can be a very frightening thing. That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
Liking is more important than loving. It lasts.
