The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work, an he hasn't obeyed.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. The really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

Mr Shaw is (I suspect) the only man on earth who has never written any poetry.

Are you a devil?"
"I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart.

The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.