A man who carries a cat by the tail leams something he can learn in no other way. There are no new jokes, but a joke is new if you have never heard it before. Sic pilum iactum est. Noel Coward thought work was more fun than fun, but he never, ever, worked in the mines. Time is money, as many merry widows have proved.
Inflation rates testify to the worldwide popularity of wishful thinking.
No matter what stage of completion one reaches in a North Sea oil project, the cost of the remainder of the project remains the same. We're all going down the same road in different directions. Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows. You have taken yourself too seriously. Either the box is too small and won't work, or it's too big and won't fit.