I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement.
I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
Hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
Great captains earned their reputation not just for laying brilliant plans, but for still being able to find victory after those plans began to fall apart.
Facing them with knives and spears was much easier than loving one.[about men]
Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
Death comes for us all. We can only choose how to face it when it comes.
Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
Change what you can if it needs changing, but learn to live with what you can’t change.
But men often mistake revenge and killing for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly.
