The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea.
Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.
As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.
Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.
Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.
The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.
Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.
Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.
The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.
Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical.
Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.
Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.
Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.
As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.
Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.
In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.
Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily.
Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.
Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.
Cynicism has its own zealots.
Being enthusiastic settles nothing.
Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.
The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.
Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.
Health can be squandered, but not stored up.
