In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. — James Russell Lowell. American poet and diplomat (1819–1891)
There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.