Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.
The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.
The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.
Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.
Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.