I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.
He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.
There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.