I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.