If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.