A budget takes the fun out of money.
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.
You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.