Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.