When You Are In It Up To

To Drink Is A Small Matter. To Be Thirsty Is Everything.

Suffering Has Roused Them From The Sleep Of Gentle Life, And Every Day Fills Them With A Terrible Intoxication. They Are Now Something More Than Themselves; Those We Loved Were Merely Happy Shadows.

When You Are In It Up To Your Ears, Keep Your Mouth Shut.

The Swimmer Adrift On The Open Seas Measures His Strength, And Strives With All His Muscles To Keep Himself Afloat. But What Is He To Do When There Is No Land On The Horizon, And None Beyond It?

Courtesy Is Not Dead - It Has Merely Taken Refuge In Great Britain.