Fortune knocks but once but misfortune has much more patience.
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry...
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17 I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.
