The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?
When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.
Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.
People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it.
Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.
Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.