Piccadilly Jim

by P.G. Wodehouse

Marriage had certainly complicated life for Mr. Pett, as it frequently does for the man who waits fifty years before trying it.

"Try to cure yourself of this passion for being funny at the wrong time. Your comedy is good, but tact is a finer quality than humour.

There is a superstition in all of us. When an accidental happening chances to fit smoothly in with a mood, seeming to come as a direct commentary on that mood, we are apt to accept it in defiance of our pure reason as an omen.