You couldn’t put off the inevitable. Because sooner or later, you reached the place when the inevitable just went and waited.
Where the carcass is, there are the vultures gathered together.
What’s past is prologue.
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Ruin is formal – Devil’s work Consecutive and slow – Fail in an instant, no man did Slipping – is Crash’s law.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end.
In the midst of life we are in death.
In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth!
If you do – evil will come… Yes, very surely evil will come… It will enter in and make its home within you, and after a little while it will no longer be possible to drive it out.
If there’s one fellow after you, there’s sure to be another. Seems to be a law of Nature. Sometimes it’s three or four.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.[Tudo que acontece uma vez, pode nunca mais acontecer. Mas tudo que acontece duas vezes, acontecerá certamente uma terceira.]