Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
That was like swatting June bugs off a fly.
And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.
Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of 'systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, syst-susceptible sister,' which is easier done than said.
To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]
There is as much chance of repealing the 18th Amendment [Prohibition] as there is of a humming bird flying to Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.
The 21st Amendment, repealing Prohibition after 13 years, was ratified less than a year later.
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.
Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.