A minute's success pays the failure of years.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.