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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To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.
Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
A man's ruin lies in his tongue.
In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.
Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.
Every advantage has its tax
The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.
When a man meets his mates society begins.
Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Constantrepetition carries conviction.