The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.