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• We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
  -- John Pomfret (1667-1703) -- Verses to his Friend under Afflictio...
• The best may slip, and the most cautious fall; He's more than mortal that ne'er err'd at all.
  -- Pomfre...
• But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority
  Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep....
• When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. -- Haliburto
• Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend.
  Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our afflictio...
• Of all of the delights in this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
  -- Mark Twai...
• There are two things a real man likes, danger and play.
  That's why he likes women, they are the most dangerous of playthings....
• As the ticket inspector on the train approached, Edward Nye told his friend, the poet James Whitcomb Riley, to get under the seat as he only had one ticket.
  Riley was reluctant to follow his friend's request but eventually did so to avoid any trouble....
• It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public.
  It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. -- Oscar Wilde...