„[N]obody minds having what is too good for them.“

— Jane Austen
„She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing…“
— Jane Austen
„Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.“
— Ambrose Bierce
„Amnesty, n. The state’s magnaminity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.“
— Ambrose Bierce
„Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.“
— Ambrose Bierce