Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.
Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
Boast quietly, with decorum.
I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.
Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.