Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.
American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else
In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.
Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by Professors Montjuic and Lauterbrunnen, and now reads, in the Shorter Harvard Orthodoxy: (a) I think, therefore I am; or (b) Perhaps I thought, therefore I was; but (c) These days, I tend to leave that side of things to my wife.
After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?
Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?
An innocent bureaucratic snafu
Women are cursed, and men are the proof.
As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.