Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.
I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.
Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.
Shopping's absolutely impossible nowadays. You can't get near the counter, and when you do, they haven't got it and you pay twiceas much for it.
Think anything like that at her again, and I'll kill you here and now. " Madigan's scoff was uneasy. "Any attack on me -" "Is the same as an attack on the United States itself," Bones finished, still in that deadly calm manner. "Heard you the first time - and didn't give a shite then, either.
Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.
The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation, the fair that once marked the harvest now takes place in late August, while tourist dollars are still in heavy circulation. Why celebrate the harvest when you harvest every week with a shopping cart?
Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.