Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.