Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.