I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time. – Josh Billings
Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. – Charles Caleb Colton
Shutting yourself in the wardrobe until the window cleaner has finished and left. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse