The noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers.

He is not drunk, who from the floor, can rise and stand and shout for more

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

The old men know when an old man dies.

People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

No man is greater than his respect for sleep.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.