It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.
The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.
Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.