S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?
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.
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.
When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.