Work is a form of nervousness.

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.

A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.

A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and the father says, 'He's four years old.' 'He looks at least twelve to me,' says the conductor. And the father says, 'Can I help it if he worries?

Streets flooded. Please advise.

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.