Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

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.

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

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

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

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