Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.
Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.