Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.
Liars often set their own traps.