The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.