Many are called but few get up.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

The Elf and the Dormouse UNDER a toadstool crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain to shelter himself. Under the toadstool, sound asleep, Sat a big Dormouse all in a heap. Trembled the wee Elf, frightened and yet Fearing to fly away lest he get wet. To the next shelter-maybe a mile! Sudden the wee Elf smiled a wee smile. Tugged till the toadstool toppled in two. Holding it over him, gaily he flew. Soon he was safe home, dry as could be. Soon woke the Dormouse-"Good gracious me!" "Where is my toadstool?" loud he lamented. -And that's how umbrellas first were invented.

Diplomacy is living in state.

I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan.