“ The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. ”
I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice.'It's her own funeral, you know,' said Sir Lulworth; 'it's a nice point in etiquette how far one ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains.' (Laura)
~ Saki
I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.
Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
