Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house.
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.