The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.