Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.