Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.