John A. Shedd wrote, “A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.”

Double fits — at least eight cards combined in each of two suits — do not give bridge players fits. Quite the opposite — they love them becaus…

This quotation is often credited to Cicero in 55 B.C.: “The national budget must be balanced. ... People must again learn to work, instead of …

Heinrich Heine, a 19th-century German poet, wrote, “The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first…

Evan Esar, in his “Comic Dictionary,” defined statistics as the only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw dif…

You are enjoying your breakfast and reading the bridge column in the paper. Suddenly the phone rings. You jump, then reach for the receiver.

A.N. Onymous said, “If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.”

Alexander Graham Bell said, “When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that …

Stephen Hawking said, “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. …

In “The Faerie Queen,” Edmund Spenser wrote, “So double was his pains, so double be his praise.”