Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. – Aesop, “The Man and His Two Wives,” Fables

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. – William H. Mauldin

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. – Mary Wortley Montagu