“No man should live longer than his teeth.”
“His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.”
“It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.”
“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”
“You should give up.''Why?''For one thing, you'll live longer.''Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.”
“When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in. ”