Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age. - Willa Cather

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

"I was thinking", he answered absently, "about Euripides; how, when he was an old man, he went and lived in a cave by the sea, and it was thought queer at the time. It seems that houses had become insupportable to him. I wonder whether it was because he had observed women so closely all his life."

The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.