Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. — Mark Twain

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.