Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.
When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind.
Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.