“I once got attacked by a bearskin rug, two days before it was a rug.”
“Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.”
“When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”
“These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged.”
“One who is snug as a bug in a rug snuggles up like a bug in a rug.”
“Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never reenter it once we are on the outside.”