Trapped like a trap in a trap
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.
If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928]
My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.