You get used to it, not in the good way, to the extent of the entire world oftentimes feeling like a place where you weren't invited. If you've been here, you know. If not, must be nice.
- Barbara Kingsolver
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is bad enough to have a bear in your house, but it does not seem to me to mend matters if you call in a pack of ferocious wolves as well.