All that glitters is sold as gold.
Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.
No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
The old men know when an old man dies.
And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.