Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

Rome wasn't built in A.D.