Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.
There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.
When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.