Passion cooks. Reason cleans.
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.
Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.
Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.
Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.