Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.