Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

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I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

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The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

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I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

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Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

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Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

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There was a young man of Herne Bay who was making some fireworks one day: but he dropped his cigar in the gunpowder jar. There was a young man of Herne Bay.

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I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.

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Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

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O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.

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