Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.