Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. – P.G. Wodehouse
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? – P.G. Wodehouse

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. – P.G. Wodehouse
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? – P.G. Wodehouse
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows. – P.G. Wodehouse
I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping. – P.G. Wodehouse
It is only a mans own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone elses meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. – Arthur Schopenhauer