The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.
Be good and you'll be lonesome
Itโs not the good that die young, itโs the lucky.
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.