As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.