Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.

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

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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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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

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Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.

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God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

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Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

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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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