When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.
Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.
Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.