"People don't slip. Time catches up with them."
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"There's many a slip between the cup and the lip."
"He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip."
"My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine."
"Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies"
"Nothing could be closer than the present, yet nothing slips away faster."
"He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away."
"Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out."
"I never had a rejection slip in my life."
"Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out."
"Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through."
"Hee stands not surely, that never slips."
"There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house."