If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?
Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.
I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.
People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.
Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.