Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.
Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?
There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.