And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

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