The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

May your trouble be like the old man's teeth...few and far between.

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear a long black coat All button'd down before.

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

The Texas 'redistricting' has outed Tom Delay.

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries around in his pocket. The more he has, the more they weigh him down.

My "check engine" light came on the other day. I popped the hood, and looked, the engine is STILL there! Silly light . . .

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me .

Find yourself in a hole.

Man's way leads to a hopeless end! Gods way leads to an endless hope!

No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream, Who says that life and love can die In all this northern gleam? At every turn the maples burn, The quail is whistling free, The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs Are dropping for you and me. Ho! hillyho! heigh O! Hillyho! In the clear October morning.

Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.