We are all riding on the same bus.
The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.
Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.
Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.
The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.