They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.
Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.
The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.
Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.