Everybody yelled at him, and laughed at him, and sassed him, and he sassed back, and said he'd attend to them and lay them out in their regular turns, but he couldn't wait now, because he'd come to town to kill old Colonel Sherburn, and his motto was, "Meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on."
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
Let us not, then, lament over the decay and oblivion into which ancient writers descend; they do but submit to the great law of nature, which declares that all sublunary shapes of matter shall be limited in their duration, but which decrees, also, that their elements and vegetable life, passes away, but the vital principle is transmitted to posterity, and the species continue to flourish. Thus, also, do authors beget authors, and having produced a numerous progeny, in a good old age they sleep with their fathers, that is to say, with the authors who preceded them and from whom they had stolen.
When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.
In the end we're all Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
Why? It paid the rent.
The best of us would rather be popular than right.
Beneath the make-up and behind the smile, I'm just a girl who wishes for the world.