Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

A man is merely to implement the law. He is there not to decide what to implement as we already have the law. We don't have a legislative body.

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.

If you want things to change to different things, you must think different thoughts. And that simply requires finding unfamiliar ways of approaching familiar subjects. Ask and it is given.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before

Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.