A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.