Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.

Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]

Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]

We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.

A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]

The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.]