The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season. - Tad Williams

Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. “You cannot catch three fish with two hands,” the little man often said.

There are three kinds of people—the living, the dead, and those at sea.

It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that."
"Ob...obseek...?"
"Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: 'Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.'