There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.
And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.
A little thought is sexton to all the world.
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.