Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

Even fools are right sometimes.

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.