A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Love your country, but never trust its government.

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.