A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.