If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

You know, Eric, I could have sworn I heard a goat bleating while I was working in the slype yesterday evening.
I expect the Dean had separated it from the sheep, Eric said solemnly. Isn't that what clergy are for?

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning.

....And then I turned and saw a guy staring at me....

"What are you looking at, idiot?" I asked, giving him the sneer that had served me so well.

"My future wife. The mother of my children.

But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

Definition of Standards: Something that should be the way I say it should be