Life is a joke that's just begun.

Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.

Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.

I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.

As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."

You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.

There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.