When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.
Many try to force the past to change.
Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.
Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.