Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.
The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.
Decades go faster toward the end of a century.
I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.