Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.
Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.
I can imagine many things, but few clearly.
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.
Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.
Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.
I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.
I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
The powerless worship Luck and Fate.
