A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.
Skepticism is provisional, even if it lasts a lifetime.
In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.