Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite That even now I've got it right.

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.

She'll be apples

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.