I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

When a lady's erotic life is vexed God knows what God is coming next.

The doctor gets you when you're born, The preacher, when you marry, And the lawyer lurks with costly clerks If too much on you carry. Professional men, they have no cares; Whatever happens, they get theirs.

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