Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.
Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.
Men gossip less than women, but mean it.
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.