The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long

Say what you want about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider audience.