The average man’

The average man’
The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.
  

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Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.
Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.
Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.
Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.