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

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.