It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
Better be killed than frightened to death.
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.
The country has its charms-cheapness for one.
Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife.