If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
Drink and dance and laugh and lie,Love, the reeling midnight through,For tomorrow we shall die!(But, alas, we never do.)
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I don't say she will but she can.
Work is the province of cattle.
I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he coul...
Wit has truth in it wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Lady, lady, never startConversation toward your heart;Keep your pretty words serene;Never murmur what you mean.Show yourself, by word and look,Swift and shallow as a brook.Be as cool and quick to goAs...
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.
It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
Scratch a lover and find a foe.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
Hence, goes on the professor, definitions of happiness are interesting. I suppose the best thing to do with that is to let is pass. Me, I never saw a definition of happiness that could detain me after...
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.
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