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“I hope of lightning our supply
Will never be exhausted;
You know it's lanterns in the sky
For angels who are losted.”

Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,
Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives
being embarrassed by our parents and the last part
being embarrassed by our childer.”

"What I Know About Life"
Versus (1949)

“O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge,
For I wish to be purged of an urge.
It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue,
And it is turning all my friends back into acquaintances, and all my acquaintances into people who look the other way when I heave into view.”

Good Intentions (1942), So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much

“Oh, than to enjoy a storm like this
There's nothing I would rather,
Don't dive between the blankets, Miss!
Or else leave room for Father.”

Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“The weather is so very mild
That some would call it warm.
Good gracious, aren't we lucky, child?
Here comes a thunderstorm.”

Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“Naturally I am not pointing a finger at me,
But I must admit that I find Mr. Ickes or any other
speaker far more convincing when I agree with
him than when I disagree.”

Good Intentions (1942), Seeing Eye to Eye is Believing

“To lave in the wave,
Majestic and chilly,
Tomorrow I crave;
But today it is silly.
It is pleasant to look at the ocean;
Tomorrow, perhaps, I shall swim in it.”

Many Long Years Ago (1945), Pretty Halcyon Days

“Belinda lived in a little white house,
With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,
And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,
And a realio, trulio, little pet dragon.”

Many Long Years Ago (1945), The Tale of Custard the Dragon

“Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut.”

Smoot Smites Smut
Context: Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut.
Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.
And his reverend occiput.
Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,
Grit your molars and do your dut.,
Gird up your l__ns,
Smite h_p and th_gh,
We'll all be Kansas
By and by.

“Hark, hark! the lark
On windswept bark
Freezes against a sky of lead!
Now see him stop,
Take one small hop,
And suddenly keel over dead!”

The Lark

“Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.:
That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.”

"England Expects"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can't be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.”

"The Porcupine" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-porcupine/

“Fear not the thunder, little one.
It's weather, simply weather;
It's friendly giants full of fun
Clapping their hands together.”

Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“Once in a night as black as pitch
Isabel met a wicked old witch.
the witch's face was cross and wrinkled,
The witch's gums with teeth were sprinkled.
Ho, ho, Isabel! the old witch crowed,
I'll turn you into an ugly toad!”

"Adventures of Isabel" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adventures-of-isabel/

“Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?”

"Good-by, Old Year, You Oaf or Why Don't They Pay the Bonus?" in The Primrose Path (1935)

“Their joy needs another woe's to cushion it,
Say a puddle, and someone littler to push in it.
They observe with glee the ballistic results
Of ice cream with spoons for catapults,
And inform the assembly with tears and glares
That everyone's presents are better than theirs.
Oh, little women and little men,
Someday I hope to love you again,
But not till after the party's over,
So give me the key to the doghouse, Rover”

Many Long Years Ago (1945), Children's Party

“Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently disappear,
The taxes last us all the year.”

"Thar She Blows"
Versus (1949)

“I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.”

"A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“Time is timelessness for you;
Calendars for the human;
What's a year, or thirty, to
Loveliness made woman?”

Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Lady Thinks She Is Thirty

“How easy for those who do not bulge
To not overindulge!”

"A Necessary Dirge"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)