Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

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.

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