As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
death depression humor tso-funny undertakers
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.
fate humor pessimism tso-funny
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
cheating fate humor misfortune top-8 tso-funny unfairness
Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew over. A dashed pretty and lively and attractive girl, mind you, but full of ideals and all that. I may be wronging her, but I have an idea that she's the sort of girl who would want a fellow to carve out a career and what not. I know I've heard her speak favourably of Napoleon. So what with one thing and another the jolly old frenzy sort of petered out, and now we're just pals. I think she's a topper, and she thinks me next door to a looney, so everything's nice and matey.
friendship humor tso-funny
This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.
humor jeeves tso-funny wooster
The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.
humor tso-funny tso-love
Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.
hair humor redheads tso-funny
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
classic-insult humor intelligence people stupidity tso-funny
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
apologies apologizing humor people taking-advantage tso-funny
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
bad-mood disgruntlement humor tso-funny
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
disappointment humor moroseness russia satire sorrow tolstoy tso-funny
In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.
humor tso-funny
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
depression humor melancholy tso-funny wit
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.
childhood humor tso-funny writing
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
humor selfishness tso-funny