The first time you do a thing is always exciting.
Assumptions are dangerous things.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.
A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?