I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.