A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Tell the truth work hard and come to dinner on time.
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.