A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.

Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.