THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THE WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo.
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Talent just defines what you do. It doesn’t define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything.
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government or a hero.
Stand before your god, bow before your king, and kneel before your man. Recipe for a happy life.
Sooner or later, we’re all someone’s dog.
Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.
Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.
Sometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
