In a poker game, you were either a shark or you were bait. — Harry Turtledove

Life was what you got, not what you expected.

You couldn’t find an answer if you didn’t know you should be asking the question.

“Oderint dum metuant,” O’Doull murmured….

“But it means, ‘let them hate, as long as they fear.’”

“Three words,” McDougald said admiringly. “Boy, that packs more into three words than anything this side of ‘I love you.’”