Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.
Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.
money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.
Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.
At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.
the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.