Do ants get headaches?
The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.