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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to BE alive is a grand thing."

(1890—1976)

British mystery writer

Archaelogists make the best husbands. The older you get, the more they're interested.

(1890—1976), mystery writer

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

British mystery writer, in news summaries, 9 March 1954

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

(1671- 1713)

English philosopher

Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

(1860—1904), Russian physicianauthor

Any idiot can face a crisis--it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

(1860—1904), Russian physicianauthor

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

(1860—1904), Russian physicianauthor

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

May the fleas of a thousand camels lodge in your armpit.

May your left ear wither and fall into your right pocket.