I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.

When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up.

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

A lady is known by the product she endorses.