Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it's also the only thing that's ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us.

The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.