We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
The ears are the last feature to age.
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.