Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as theyre old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that its enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it. – Jean Anouilh
There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it…. Prevention is better than cure. – Thomas Love Peacock, Melincourt, 1817
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. – Thomas Hardy