Wit puts politicians at risk.
To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.
Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.
When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.