The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

Another day gone and no jokes.

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.