I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.
Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.
A bloody good thing, but too late.
Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.
The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.