At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

— P.G. Wodehouse

If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden chest. A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems.

— Hilary Mantel

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana