i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

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

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

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