It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.

But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?''Quite correct.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion.

I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'

I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.