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

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

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

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

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