Satire is born of the cities it denounces.
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.
Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.