Life is a joke that's just begun.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
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."
When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.