As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

I love you in my dreams, but not in real life.

The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.

Tears are great peace-makers.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.