There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. – Alexander Theroux
Its true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. – Alexander Theroux

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. – Alexander Theroux
Its true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. – Alexander Theroux
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,