There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.