The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

I put second things first, and then worry about first things.