the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.