The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.
A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.