God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.