The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.

It is always better to say too little than too much.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.