You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.
We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.
I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
The funniest things are the forbidden.
Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?