Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
To step aside is human.
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns