"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief ..." — H. L. Mencken

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.