It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.