Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.