When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.
There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.