Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.