"Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive
Officiously to keep alive."
"Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour." Gioacchino Rossini
"Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare
And left the flushed print in a poppy there."
"'Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death,' said Clovis." Hector Hugh Munro
"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where a backbone ought to be."
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness." Elsa Schiaparelli
"When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a clock."