The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing

I would my horse had the speed of your tongue . . .

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?