Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.
Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.
When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of the mess I am in now, he thought for a long time, and I didn't care much for his answer. 'Yes,' he said. 'Death would help.'
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."
If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.