No amount of money can make one stay bought. Who does not freely choose to. - Lois McMaster Bujold

"I know my limits." "No one knows their limits till they've gone beyond them."

"Damn it," he mumbled apologetically, "things like this never happened to Vorthalia the Bold."
She raised a thoughtful eyebrow. "How do you know? The histories of those times were all written by minstrels and poets. You try and think of a word that rhymes with 'bleeding ulcer"

You know, if you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.