To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.
Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!
When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.
Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner!
Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees. . . I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92, but. . . thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!
King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner!
Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!
If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you. " "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
America. . . where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters.
I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn't mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news.