There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.