Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.