The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.