A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.