Great men are often tardy with their truths - Elizabeth Jennings
You can drop a mouse down a thousand yard mineshaft & on arriving at the bottom it gets a slight shock & walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes - JBS Haldane
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you - Nikita Kruschev
Real women have never been popular in fiction. Men readers prefer the false, and women readers object to the truth - Jerome K Jerome