Better a broken promise than none at all.
Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
It's so damned humiliating.
They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.