The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

W.M. Lewis

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Walter Bagehot

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

Chinese Proverb

Bad is never good until worse happens.

Danish Proverb

Death makes equal the high and low.

John Heywood

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare