I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?

Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.

Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

A bit of talcum Is always walcum.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.