Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.
Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.
Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.