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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Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.
Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.
It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.
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.
Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.
Constantrepetition carries conviction.
Only the educated are free.