People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

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