When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can.
My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.
Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.