The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.

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.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.