"In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto."
- Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts

"Damn my blood... I scorn to do anyone a mischief, when it is not for my advantage."
- "Black" Sam Bellamy