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• Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest spa
  Oh give relief, and Heaven will bless your store. -- Thomas Moss (1740-1808) -- The Begga...
• The blinded boy that shootes so trim, From heaven downe did hie.
  -- Thomas Percy (1728-1811) -- King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid...
• One day, when I came home from work, I accidently put my car key in the door of my apartment building.
  .. I turned it... and the whole building started up....
• For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed milita is their best security.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, 1808...
• I've gone crazy, my kids drove me there.
• Go west, old man. -- Irving "Swifty" Lazar (from Moss Hart)
• A man drove me to drink. I never properly thanked him.
• Women drove me to drink, for which I'm eternally grateful!
• Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
  -- Marlo Thoma...