For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. Edward Dowden
Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office doing business, and also reading a little of L'escholle des filles, which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world. Samuel Pepys
When you can't get bread, oat-cakes are not amiss. Spanish Proverb
Between neighbors' gardens a hedge is not amiss. German Proverb