HERE are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going,
When they seem going they come: Diplomats, women, and crabs.
John Hay, Poems.
F a man might know
The ill he must undergo,
And shun it so,
Then were it good to know.
But if he undergo it,
Though he know it,
What boots him know it?
He must undergo it.
Sir John Suckling.
ARRY CORNWALL told me that when he and Charles Lamb were once making up a dinner-party together, Charles asked him not to invite a certain lugubrious friend of theirs. "Because," said Lamb, "he would cast a damper even over a funeral."
J. T. Fields, Yesterdays with Authors.