Then Yield Thee, Coward And Live To Be The Show And Gaze O' The Time: We'll Have Thee, As Our Rarer Monsters

Then yield thee, coward And live to be the show and gaze o' the time: We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, Painted on a pole, and underwrit, 'Here may you see the tyrant.'

Macduff, Macbeth; William Shakespeare

Sometimes I forget what I was going to say. Sometimes I remember things everyone else has forgotten for ever and always. Does that ever happen to you?

Delirium, The Sandman: Season of Mists Neil Gaiman

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world keeps on changing whether I want it to or not.

The Knife of Never Letting Go, Page 64; Patrick Ness

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand, lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Mark Twain

Will Turner: You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd kill you. Jack Sparrow: Then that's not much incentive for me to fight fair, now is it?

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

You think about money in the old-fashioned way. Money is not a thing, it is not even a process. It is a kind of shared dream. We dream that a small disc of common metal is worth the price of a substantial meal. Once you wake up from that dream, you can swim in a sea of money.

Reacher Gilt, Going Postal; Terry Pratchett