It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Arthur Conan Doyle
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. Truman Capote
Cut your coat to suit your cloth. Dutch Proverb
When a woman prepares a dish which others find unpalatable, she says that she prepared it to suit her own taste. Nigerian Proverb
Cut your coat to suit your cloth. Spanish Proverb