There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house.
We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.
A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.
One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.