Frienship is eros...without wings

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

We of the craft are all crazy.

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.