It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.

If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.