A girl's best friend is her mutter.
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.