Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.
In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.
The right time to die is never exactly now.
Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.