Being enthusiastic settles nothing.
If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
The aphorism is a slippery plaything.
Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.