A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
When you see yourself quoted in print and youโre sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs.
If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.