I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
Romance at short notice was her speciality.
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.