Malice drinketh its own poison.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history