A joke's a very serious thing.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
A poem is no place for an idea.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.