Just Too High Strung

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey

Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So you're stuck with this undefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast and the taste is... fleeting. So, you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. And if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you got left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers.