It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?
The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.