A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.

The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.

I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

You can tell when women have a sensibility about, or a sense of bravery or a sense of understanding about their personal style that's outside of what you see from a magazine.

As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.