He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

You used to ride a donkey, don't?

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.