Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. [If youth but knew, if old age but could.]

There is always something new out of Africa.

Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure.