He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Big-endians and small-endians.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.