ALKING to —— is like playing long whist.
Lady Ashburton, apud Lord Houghton.
CERBERUS.
Y dog, who picks up everything one teaches,
Has got "three heads," like Mr. Gladstone's speeches,
But, as might naturally be expected,
His are considerably more connected.
H. J. Byron, in English Epigrams.
LESSED be the word "nice"!—it is the copper coin of commendation. Without it, we should have to praise more handsomely.
Charles Buxton, Notes of Thought.