Maxioms by Margery Allingham
When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that read more
When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the read more
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had read more
In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all he had, like a man passing a ball in a game.
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst read more
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding read more
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
