This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

Any place I hang my head is home.

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.