Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it.
the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.
Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.
Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.
Diamonds are the tears of the poor.
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?