When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.