I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.
Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.
Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily.
Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.
Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.