There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them. - Jerome K. Jerome

There was a time, long ago, when I used to clamour for the hard work: now I like to give the youngsters a chance.

A woman never thoroughly cares for her
lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have
snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she
begins to smile upon you.

"In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two girls who "have never been undutiful to their parents; who have never been known to swear or to tell untruths, to steal, or to break windows." Fancy giving up all that for five shillings a year! It is not worth it!"