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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.  
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.  
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.  
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plai...  
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.  
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.  
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you lear...  
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Fiv...  
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the l...  
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehea...  
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness tha...   Humor
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fle...  
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we...  
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibra...  
Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself...  
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.  
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not...  
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed...  
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.  
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.  
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention...  
Only the sinner has the right to preach.  
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves...  
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, s...  
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.  
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.  
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and ye...  
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.  
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own ...  
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.  
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper ...