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After scolding one's cat one looks into its face

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After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

It would have been more logical if silent picture

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It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bi

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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

A father carries pictures where his money used to

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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

We hope that, when the insects take over the worl

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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you

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So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick

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If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

Most anthologists of quotations are like those wh

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Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters: first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.

The typical gambler might not really understand t

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The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civ

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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bi

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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

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Pictures must not be too picturesque.

It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants.

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It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. W

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I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

Commerce, n. A kind of transaction in which A plu

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Commerce, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

Memory is a child walking along a seashore.

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Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.

Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and i

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Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.

We gather up pictures and bits of our past an

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We gather up pictures and bits of our past
and scrapbook them into a gift that will last.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibbol

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Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

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