The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

The meanest subjects censure the actions of the greatest prince; the silliest servants, of the wisest master.

 

-- William Temple

Why we bear the fardels along

 

 

 

 Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscover'd country from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

-- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1