Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.
Arthur BryantAnd so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
Arthur BryantWhen the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.
Arthur Bryant