“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.”

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”

“If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.”

“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”

“I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.”