1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Love is so much better when you are not married.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.