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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Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.
Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.
The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
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.
To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.
Our power is in our ability to decide.
My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.
We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.
Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.
There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.