[History is] petrified imagination.
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.
An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.
You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.