When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
It's not as bad as it sounds.
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.