Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?