This is a French proverb: Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth. Sometimes, bridge players dig their graves by forgetting the play that calls to mind someone who works with teeth.
W.C. Fields said, "The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves." The first time I went to a movie in the United States, in Chicago in 1971, I remember only one thing: the constant background noise of people eating popcorn. That was something no one did in England, where I was born and lived until 1985. In bridge we have pancake hands - those with 4-3-3-3 distribution. They tend not to be good for suit play, because the losers stay losers forever. They are better either in no-trump or on defense.
One year after the passing of Chester Bennington, the vocalist of Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda, who used to share the band's vocal duties with the late musician, has embarked on a tour across Asia to promote his first solo album Post Traumatic.
As a child, jazz pianist Luo Ning enjoyed lying under a big tree and seeing the rays of sunlight shine through the canopy of leaves after he was done with hours of piano practice.
Eleanor Roosevelt said, "A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
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