"Don't be so down in the mouth," chimed in Echion, the ragman; "if it wasn't that it'd be something else, as the farmer said, when he lost his spotted pig.

If a thing don't happen today, it may tomorrow.

That's the way life jogs along.

You couldn't name a better country, by Hercules, you couldn't, if only the men had any brains.

She's in hot water right now, but she ain't the only one.