Whenever I listen to my teenage cousins complain about responsibilities, I think youth is wasted on the young.

At the reunion my grandmother sighed and said it is a wise child that knows his own father, a proverb she used whenever paternity was the subject of gossip.

After the confidential report was leaked, the genie is out of the bottle, and regulators can't ignore the allegations.

Isaack arrived at the library early to prepare for the presentation.

In his lecture, he argued that man is the measure of all things, insisting that truth depends on human perspective rather than absolute reality.

She danced like there is no tomorrow at the wedding reception.

When she returned the lost wallet without hesitation, she smiled and said, 'virtue is its own reward.'

After two months of daily meetings, the bloom is off the peach for our early enthusiasm about the project.

Even after years of marriage, the blush is off the rose, and they no longer talk like newlyweds.

When she overheard the gossip about the teacher, she whispered, 'let him that is without sin cast the first stone,' and walked away.