What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over. - Jerome K. Jerome

There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right — except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

Foolish people — when I say "foolish people" in this contemptuous way I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

La mancanza di senape rattristò l’equipaggio. Mangiammo il nostro manzo in silenzio. La vita ci sembrava vuota e insignificante.