Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?

Never ask a bore a question.

In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.