A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.