If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?
I think we think in terms of stories.
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.