Carpe Diem! Seize the moment!
Remember all those poor people on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.” Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer
Teacher: give me a sentence which includes the words Defence, Detail, Defeat
Pupil: When the horse jumps over de fence, de feet come first, then de tail.