If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing: