What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.