I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews.
I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along. ' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.
Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.
Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.
I think that sometimes the Democrats have to run upstream or swim upstream because we've got the Republicans making it out as if we don't care about these things, and we should be able to engage and be willing to engage in the discussion about morality and values.