Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred$$$ the curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

You better stand tall when they're calling you out$$$ don't bend$$$ don't break$$$ and don't back down!

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away$$$ first I become antsy$$$ then violent.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.<br>"That is probably why you make such a bad job of it."

He was swimming in a sea of other peoples expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

If you must mount the gallows$$$ give a jest to the crowd$$$ a coin the hangman$$$ and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me$$$ and love him if he makes you smile.