alone see he TRAVELS fastest who travels alone.
alter see CIRCUMSTANCES alter cases.
always see he who is ABSENT is always in the wrong; there is always a FIRST time; ONCE a—, always a —; there is always ROOM at the top; the UNEXPECTED always happens.
Good AMERICANS when they die go to Paris
The person alluded to in quot. 1858 was Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-84). Quot. 2002 alters the sense from the implied equivalence of Paris with Heaven.
1858 O. W. HOLMES Autocrat of Breakfast-Table vi. To these must certainly be added that other saying of one of the wittiest of men: ‘Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.’ 1894 O. WILDE Woman of no Importance 1.1.16 They say.. that when good Americans die they go to Paris. 1932 T. SMITH Topper takes Trip xxi. We are those good Americans who come to Paris when they die. 2002 Times Literary Supplement 22 Mar. 23 ‘Like any other city.. Big, noisy, crowded.’ You don’t have to believe that Paris is worth a Mass or the place where good Americans go to die to disagree. "death; just deserts
and see if IFS and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands.
angel see FOOLS rush in where angels fear to tread.
anger see never let the SUN go down on your anger.
angry see a HUNGRY man is an angry man.
ANOTHER day, another dollar
Quot. 1897 links the form more days, more dollars to sailors being paid by the day: the longer the voyage the greater the financial reward. Later uses suggest that another day, another dollar occurs as world-weary comment on routine toil to earn a living. It has also generated a quantity of by-forms.
1897 J. CONRAD Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ (1955) v. 114. The common saying, ‘More days, more dollars,’ did not give the usual comfort because the stores were running short. 1957 D. ERSKINE & P. DENNIS Pink Hotel (1958) 8 “Nother sleepless night,’ Mr. Baldwin said. ‘Heard the clock strike four again.’ ‘That’s a shame, Mr. Baldwin,’ Mary said. She yawned and stretched, knowing that her landlord was about to say Another Day, Another Dollar. 1992 J. E. DOMINGUEZ& V. ROBIN Your Money or Your Life v. 157 For those opting for Financial Independence it reinforces the awareness that work is no longer about ‘another day, another dollar.’ 1993 Time International 18 Jan. 4 Another day, another deadline. And another backdown by Saddam Hussein, for what seems like the zillionth time. 2002 Times 2 10 Jan. 7 And I haven’t even mentioned.. Bobby Fischer, stripped of his title by Fide in 1975 (another decade, another squabble), but never defeated, and still only 58. "action and consequence; work
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