A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
A German joke is no laughing matter.
Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.
When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.