The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
One and one is two and two and two is four and five will get you ten if you...
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire women will...
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
A good story never dies. Alexander Downer
A good story never dies.
Alexander Downer
Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians...
