Logic is a feeble reed, friend.
Life is short, but the years are long.
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.