A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?
The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.
No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.