Our skills, you will find, could be our jailers.
Our rulers rule by consent, which means that we like having them as rulers, if they do what we want them to do.
Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
Only those with their feet on rock can build castles in the air.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Only crimes could take place in darkness. Punishment had to be done in the light.
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Once you have a dream you’ve got somewhere closer to a reality.
Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.
Once you gave a thing a name you gave it a life.
Once upon a time the plural of “wizard” was “war”.
