“You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.”
“He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face”
“Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.”
“You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.”
“If on'y they didn' tell me I got to get off, why, I'd prob'y be in California right now a-eatin' grapes an a-pickin' an orange when I wanted. But them sons-a-bitches says I got to get off-an', Jesus Christ, a man can't, when he's tol' to!”
“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”