The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.
“Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.”
“You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.”
“You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.”
“I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.”
“In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.”
“Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.”
It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.
The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.
one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping
What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.
“The people that set one animal against another haven't the guts to be bullies themselves. They're just secondhand cowards.”
“For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.”
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
The facts of life are very stubborn things.
“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”