Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

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.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm