It is evidence of a sour, disappointed disposition.

–it is an evidence that you are a better subject for criticism than anything else.

with whatever comes to pass.  Why cry over spilt milk?  It will avail nothing.  Dismiss trouble from your mind and resign yourself to whatever may present itself.

–it is a filthy habit.

–it will never come.  You must enjoy life as it passes–happiness is, in a great degree, a habit.  Those persons who desire to get rich first, and enjoy themselves afterward, always are miserable.  Now or never is its motto.

of saying madam, sir, etc., too frequently.  It signifies a lack of independence.

–it is the height of boorishness.

it is like singing psalms to a dead horse.  It is a habit that signifies nothing in particular.

–he is on the highway to ruin.