The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
The ears are the last feature to age.