J Austill

“All donkeys are born wise," was the reply, "so the only school we need is the school of experience. Books are only for those who know nothing, and so are obliged to learn things from other people.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz [with Biographical Introduction]

“War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

“I can only think that the business with the apple must have upset him more than I realised.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby