It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.