The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.

Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

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.

There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.