Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.