The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.