Drink and dance and laugh and lie,Love, the reeling midnight through,For tomorrow we shall die!(But, alas, we never do.)
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
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 :)
Be you wise and never sad,You will get your lovely lad.Never serious be, nor true,And your wish will come to you--And if that makes you happy, kid,You'll be the first it ever did.
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
If wild my breast and sore my pride,I bask in dreams of suicide,If cool my heart and high my headI think 'How lucky are the dead.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
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...
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...
It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
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...
Razors pain you,Rivers are damp,Acids stain you,And drugs cause cramp.Guns aren't lawful,Nooses give,Gas smells awful.You might as well live.
Wit has truth in it wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.
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.