Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.