The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

Never confuse activity with action.

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.