I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.