A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.