Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

Count 10 over him - he'll get up

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

You're a mouse studying to be a rat.