With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular, being as manlike as most of his sons.

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.