Poverty wants some things, luxury many things, avarice all things. Keep yourself from the opportunity, and God will keep you from sin. A false friend and a shadow stay around only while the sun shines. Manufacturers' spec sheets will be incorrect by a factor of 0.5 or 2.0, depending on which multiplier gives the most optimistic value. For salesmen's claims, these factors will be 0.1 or 10.0.
Flattery is the sincerest form of lying.
The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity. The qualities that most attract a woman to a man are usually the same ones she can't stand years later. That which we resist the most is what we become. Stupidity is an almost sovereign force. Truth is plural and contingent.