Forbidden things seem more appealing; people want things more if (or, in some way, because) they can't have them.

(idiomatic, metonymically) More influence and power can be usurped by writing than by fighting.

Alternative form of Foulness

A normally unreliable person or instrument can occasionally provide correct information, even if only by accident.

A failure remains a failure, regardless of how close to success one has actually come.

Cooking food for a man is a good way to win his affections.

Different people have different views on what is beautiful; beauty is subjective.

The biggest and longest island of the contiguous United States, located in the state of New York. / An island in Antigua and Barbuda.

A district and long, thin island of the Bahamas.

plural of isle