Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.
The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.
People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.