What we see is not always what exists.
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.
I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?
Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood, and smiting firstborn, give me a pass, and tell me when it's over.
Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?