Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.
Mark ForsythSo familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.
Mark ForsythAnyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.
Mark Forsyth