With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.
Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.
Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.
If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.