Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

Never repeat old grievances.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes