In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain

How are you expected to love life, if life does not love you in return.All we can do is clear away the delusions of grandeur and try to be a better person no matter what is before us.Gary F Evans...

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves

The way it works is there are certain receptors in the brain that if we block them, can reduce the pleasurable effects associated with drinking.

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.