"Getting on is largely a matter of getting up each time you are knocked down."  From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.

From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005.

Twelve years before the invention of Mr. Potato Head, it was believed that potatoes couldn't play with you.  Today, we know that potatoes can in fact play.  From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany Fun with Dick and Jane, 1940.

"We go in circles."  From Toike Oike, 1937.

"I just don't like the idea of a crystal ball deciding my future."  From Dark Shadows episode 49.

Imaginary letters are so rarely studied anymore, as they were in the 1940s.

From My Spelling Grade 5 by Yoakam & Daw, 1949.

A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.

"For years I suffered in silence!"  From Movie Classic, 1936.

We can answer the third question about who killed us and with what, when, and where: it was Miss Scarlet, in the library just now, with the candlestick.  From The Aberree, 1954.  

"Empty and uneventful."  In parts one, two, three, and four, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seinfeld to be the first show about nothing. 

A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.

"'I want to know every Shangri-la in the world,' she told him, but he just looked at her."  From The Old Line, 1943.

From Flying Saucer News, 1961.

"A short time that terror has made ageless."  From Dark Shadows episode 41.

"If you must accept advice, be sure your advisor isn't a ferret or a mole, you're a 'squirrel.'"  From The Aberree, 1962.  

"I look like a slob.  I never eat breakfast anymore."  From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.

From Movie Classic, 1936.