When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This makes them prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share.

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.