A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.
Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.
When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.
The Simple Life is not a simple life.
Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.