It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.
Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.
People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.
Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.