In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.
If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.