Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.
But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.
Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
You never toot your own horn.
You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.