MARRY (AND DON'T) COME UP.
FELLOW that's single, a fine fellow's he;
But a fellow that's married's a felo de se.
Shirley Brooks, Wit and Humour.
BROTHER actor, who had not exactly "taken the house by storm" at his first appearance in London, very stupidly asked Compton: "Was my acting good?" "Well," was the reply, delivered in his inimitable style, "hum! ha! Good is not the word!"
H. Howe, in Memoir of Henry Compton.
O when two dogs are fighting in the streets,
When a third dog one of the two dogs meets,
With angry tooth he bites him to the bone,
And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.