Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.