When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?
Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.
A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?