Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.

Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.

I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.